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Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
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Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
8 reconstructed results for europe in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for europe
- Windows Phone 7 launches - 21 October 2010
Spotify - The European streaming service Americans could not get
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/spotify
In 2010 Spotify was available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands, often by invitation, with a free ad-supported tier and a premium...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
HTC Desire - The Nexus One with Sense, and Europe's Android favourite
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-desire
The HTC Desire was essentially a Nexus One with HTC's Sense interface, an optical trackpad and physical buttons. Released in Europe in spring 2010, it became one of the...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
Habbo Hotel - Pixel rooms and furni
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/habbo
Habbo Hotel, the Finnish virtual hotel of isometric pixel rooms, was where teenagers hung out and traded "furni" in 2010. Its Shockwave client, guest rooms and games...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Nokia 5230 - The cheap touchscreen Nokia that sold in the tens of millions
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-5230
Nokia was still the world's biggest phone maker in 2010, and phones like the 5230, a low-cost touchscreen Symbian handset, were why. It sold enormously across Europe,...
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Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - Johto remade, with a Pokéwalker pedometer in the box
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pokemon-heartgold-soulsilver
The DS remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver reached North America and Europe in March 2010, bundled with the Pokéwalker pedometer. They sold more than 12 million copies...
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Windows Phone 7 launch phones - Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and the Metro tiles
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7-devices
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...
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Nintendo DSi XL - The big-screen DS, months before the 3DS was revealed
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nintendo-dsi-xl
The DSi XL launched in North America and Europe in March 2010 with larger screens and a wider stylus, aimed at older players of Brain Age and Pokémon HeartGold and...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
The search engines of 2010
Google
- Supported
Ask.com
The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search
Ask.com, once Ask Jeeves with its butler mascot, still had a few percent of US searches in 2010, largely through toolbars bundled with downloads. In...
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- Supported
Baidu
China's search engine, after Google walked away
Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....
searchbaiduchina
- Supported
Bing
Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"
Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In...
searchbingmicrosoft
- Supported
Wolfram|Alpha
A computational knowledge engine
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...
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- Supported
Yahoo!
The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...
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Why these are not real Google results
Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.
