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
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
17 reconstructed results for just dance in the 2010 exhibit.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/just-dance-2
Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baby-justin-bieber
Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-the-game
The Game: A mind game everyone is playing; thinking about it means you just lost. Posting "I lost the game" made everyone else lose. Example: "I just lost the game"
SlangEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wii
The Wii remained the best-selling home console in 2010 thanks to Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Just Dance 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Its motion controls inspired both...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/justin-bieber
Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-jk
jk: Just kidding; softening a message after the fact. Example: "you're the worst. jk"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kinect
Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-troll
troll / trolling: Someone who provokes others online for fun, or the act of doing so. "Don't feed the trolls." Example: "he's just trolling the YouTube comments"
SlangVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/shit-my-dad-says
Justin Halpern's Twitter account quoting his father's blunt remarks gained a million followers in 2009-2010, became a bestselling book in May 2010 and a CBS sitcom...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever
Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-check-in
check in / mayor: To announce your location on Foursquare (or, from August, Facebook Places); the most frequent visitor became a venue's mayor. Example: "just ousted...
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
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
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube
YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday in May 2010 by announcing more than two billion views a day. Users uploaded 24 hours of video every minute in March and 35 hours a...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-web-2010
In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...
TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo
Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine
Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/starcraft-2
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released on 27 July 2010 and sold three million copies in its first month. It relaunched competitive real-time strategy, Battle.net...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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
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...
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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....
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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
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...
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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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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.