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2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

24 reconstructed results for god of war in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for god of war

  1. God of War III - Kratos versus Olympus, in PS3 spectacle

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/god-of-war-3

    God of War III, released in March 2010, was the PlayStation 3's graphical showpiece of the year, with Kratos climbing titans the size of mountains. It sold more than a...

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  2. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks

    WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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  3. omg

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-omg

    omg: Oh my god; added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, having peaked in texts and Facebook statuses long before. Example: "OMG iPhone 4 has a front camera"

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  4. PlayStation 3 Slim - Blu-ray, free online play, and the year the Other OS vanished

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-3-slim

    The PS3 Slim, released in 2009 at $299, was Sony's console through 2010, with a Blu-ray drive, free PlayStation Network play and exclusives like God of War III, Heavy...

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  5. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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  6. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - 12 million subscribers and Azeroth remade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wow-cataclysm

    World of Warcraft reached 12 million subscribers in October 2010, its all-time peak, and its third expansion, Cataclysm, sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours when it...

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  7. OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) - One take, one warehouse, one enormous machine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass

    OK Go, already famous for their treadmill video, released a single-take video in March 2010 in which a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine plays out over four minutes....

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  8. Julian Assange - WikiLeaks' founder, the year's most controversial figure online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/julian-assange

    Julian Assange went from obscurity to global notoriety in 2010 as WikiLeaks published the Collateral Murder video, the war logs and the diplomatic cables. By December he...

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  9. Trolling - Do not feed the trolls

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trolling

    Trolling, provoking people online for amusement, was the internet's defining pastime in 2010, from YouTube comment wars to 4chan raids to Trollface. "Don't feed the...

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  10. 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"

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  11. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

    Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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  12. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay

    The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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  13. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

    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 November 2010 it...

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  14. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

    AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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  15. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

    eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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  16. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

    RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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  17. "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife" - The catchphrase of summer 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hide-yo-kids

    Antoine Dodson's warning to his Huntsville neighbours, "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband, cause they rapin' everybody out here," became the year's most...

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  18. Anonymous and Operation Payback - Guy Fawkes masks, LOIC, and the WikiLeaks payment war

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/anonymous-2010

    Anonymous, the loose collective born on 4chan, spent 2010 attacking anti-piracy groups and then, in December, the companies that cut off WikiLeaks: PayPal, Visa and...

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  19. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs

    Steve Jobs had his last great year of product launches in 2010: the iPad in January, the "Thoughts on Flash" letter in April, the iPhone 4 in June, the Antennagate press...

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The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    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

  • 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...

    portalyahooemail

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.

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