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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...
searchgooglegoogle instant
Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
7 reconstructed results for gaming in the 2010 exhibit.
pwned - Owned, utterly defeated; a typo of "owned" that became gaming's favourite taunt.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-pwned
pwned: Owned, utterly defeated; a typo of "owned" that became gaming's favourite taunt. Example: "got pwned in Halo: Reach all night"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption
Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
epic fail - A spectacular failure; the superlative of FAIL.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-epic-fail
epic fail: A spectacular failure; the superlative of FAIL. Example: "Digg v4 = epic fail"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
Friendster - The original social network, thriving in Southeast Asia
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster
Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Let's Play videos - From Something Awful screenshots to YouTube commentary
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lets-play
Let's Plays, playing a game while narrating it, began as screenshot threads on Something Awful and became a YouTube video genre by 2010, with Minecraft and horror games...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
ftw - For the win; enthusiastic endorsement of anything.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-ftw
ftw: For the win; enthusiastic endorsement of anything. Example: "Robot Unicorn Attack ftw"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
noob / n00b - A newcomer, usually an incompetent or annoying one; "newb" was the kinder form.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-noob
noob / n00b: A newcomer, usually an incompetent or annoying one; "newb" was the kinder form. Example: "stop feeding, noob"
SlangSupportedReconstructed 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.
