Verified
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.
6 reconstructed results for farmville in the 2010 exhibit.
FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville
FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
Facebook - The social network at 500 million users
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook
In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1
Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
over 9000 - An absurdly large number, from a Dragon Ball Z dub line.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-over-9000
over 9000: An absurdly large number, from a Dragon Ball Z dub line. Example: "the number of FarmVille requests is over 9000"
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CityVille - Zynga's fastest-growing game ever, December 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cityville
CityVille launched on Facebook on 2 December 2010 and passed 20 million monthly users within two weeks, faster than any Facebook game before it. It was FarmVille with a...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/qzone
Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed 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...
searchask.comask jeeves
- 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...
searchwolfram alphamaths
- 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.
