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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.

49 reconstructed results for google reader in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for google reader

  1. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

    Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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  2. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google

    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 China, added a...

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  3. Barnes & Noble Nook Color - A $249 colour reader that hackers turned into a tablet

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nook-color

    Released in November 2010, the Nook Color was a 7-inch LCD e-reader running a locked-down Android. Because it cost $249, tinkerers immediately rooted it into a cheap...

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  4. Safari 5 - Reader mode and extensions, in brushed aluminium

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/safari-5

    Safari 5, released on 7 June 2010 for Mac and Windows, added Reader (a clean article view), extensions, Bing as a search option and a faster Nitro JavaScript engine. On...

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  5. Google Docs - Word processing in the browser, shared with a link

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-docs

    Google Docs let students write group projects in the same document at the same time, which felt like magic in 2010. In January it began storing any file type, and in...

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  6. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

    Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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  7. Amazon Kindle (3rd generation) - $139 e-reader, the one that made Kindle mainstream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kindle-3

    The third-generation Kindle, later called the Kindle Keyboard, shipped in August 2010 with a sharper E Ink screen, a smaller body and a $139 Wi-Fi-only price. Amazon...

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  8. Google Font API (Google Fonts) - Free web fonts for everyone, launched at Google I/O

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-font-api

    Google launched its Font API and directory in May 2010 with 18 open-source typefaces, including Lobster, Droid Sans, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Inconsolata. Alongside Typekit...

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  9. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/logitech-revue-google-tv

    Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

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  10. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

    Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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  11. Gmail - Conversations, labels, and 7 GB of storage

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gmail

    Gmail had left beta in 2009 and by 2010 was the email of choice for anyone under 35, with conversation threading, labels instead of folders and more than 7 GB of free...

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  12. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010

    In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...

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  13. Webcomics: xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half - The comics that lived in Google Reader

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcomics-2010

    xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...

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  14. Baidu - China's search engine, after Google walked away

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baidu

    Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong. Baidu's share of Chinese...

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  15. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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  16. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle

    iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...

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  17. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

    Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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  18. Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook - Google's unbranded laptop that was only a browser

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chrome-os-cr48

    On 7 December 2010 Google unveiled Chrome OS and shipped the matte-black, logo-free Cr-48 to testers in a pilot programme. The laptop ran nothing but the Chrome browser,...

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  19. A typical 2010 Windows laptop - Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, a 320 GB hard drive and a DVD burner

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/typical-2010-laptop

    The mainstream laptop of 2010, from Dell, HP, Toshiba or Acer, ran Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel Core 2 Duo or the new Core i3, with 3 or 4 GB of RAM, a 250 to 500...

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  20. Browser plugins: Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime - The web ran on plugins, and every one of them wanted an update

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-plugins

    In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...

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  21. Texts From Last Night - Anonymous drunk texts, sorted by area code

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/texts-from-last-night

    Texts From Last Night posted anonymous text messages submitted by readers, tagged only with an area code, and became a 2009-2010 phenomenon with a book deal and a TV...

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  22. 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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  23. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo

    Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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  24. Google Chrome (versions 4 to 8) - The fast newcomer with tabs on top and one box for everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-chrome

    Chrome went from about 5 percent of worldwide browser usage at the start of 2010 to roughly 15 percent by December. Version 4 added extensions in January, version 5 in...

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  25. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010

    Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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  26. Android 2.3 Gingerbread - The version that lingered for years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-gingerbread

    Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrived on the Nexus S in December 2010 with a darker, cleaner interface, a better keyboard, NFC support and copy-and-paste improvements. Because...

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  27. Browser toolbars - Yahoo, Google, Ask, AVG, MyWebSearch... stacked five deep

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-toolbars

    Toolbars were the plague of the 2010 browser: bundled with Java updates, antivirus software and free downloads, they stacked below the address bar until the page was a...

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  28. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

    The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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  29. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

    Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...

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  30. 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...

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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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