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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.

15 reconstructed results for itunes in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for itunes

  1. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

    WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result

  2. Glee - The show whose covers topped iTunes every week

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/glee

    Glee was the pop-culture juggernaut of 2010: its cast recordings sold millions on iTunes, its Madonna and Lady Gaga tribute episodes were events, and "Gleeks" organised...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  3. MP3 culture - Ripping CDs, LimeWire folders, mislabelled tracks and the 4 GB iPod

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mp3-culture

    In 2010 music was files: ripped from CDs, downloaded from LimeWire or torrents, bought from iTunes, traded on USB sticks, and organised (badly) in iTunes or Winamp. A...

    CultureEditorialReconstructed result

  4. Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha

    "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...

    MediaVerifiedReconstructed result

  5. Last.fm - Scrobble everything you play

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/last-fm

    Last.fm recorded ("scrobbled") every track you played in iTunes, Winamp or your iPod and turned it into charts, recommendations and neighbours with similar taste. In...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  6. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ringtones-2010

    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

    TechnologySupportedReconstructed result

  7. Lost: The End - The series finale the internet argued about for weeks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lost-finale

    Lost ended on 23 May 2010 with a two-and-a-half-hour finale watched by about 13.5 million Americans and dissected on forums, Twitter and recap blogs for weeks. The...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  8. 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

  9. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/apple-tv-2010

    The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

    ProductVerifiedReconstructed result

  10. The biggest songs of 2010 - Billboard's year-end Hot 100 top five

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hits-of-2010

    Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 2010 was led by Kesha's Tik Tok, followed by Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, Train's Hey, Soul Sister, Katy Perry's California Gurls and...

    MediaVerifiedReconstructed result

  11. Albums of 2010: Recovery, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Suburbs - Eminem's comeback, Kanye's masterpiece, and Arcade Fire's Grammy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/albums-of-2010

    Eminem's Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released in November after his weekly G.O.O.D....

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  12. Antoine Dodson - From a local news interview to the most-watched video of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/antoine-dodson

    Antoine Dodson became famous in July 2010 for his interview about an intruder in his sister's bedroom, which the Gregory Brothers turned into Bed Intruder Song. He...

    PersonVerifiedReconstructed result

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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