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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...
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Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
13 reconstructed results for last.fm in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for last.fm
- Google unveils the Nexus One - 5 January 2010
- iTunes Store passes 10 billion songs sold - 24 February 2010
- Gmail launches Priority Inbox and calls from Gmail - 30 August 2010
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
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Nokia N8 - A 12-megapixel camera and the last hope for Symbian
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-n8
The Nokia N8, released in October 2010, had the best camera on any phone, a 12-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens and HDMI output. It ran Symbian^3, which reviewers...
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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...
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Halo: Reach - $200 million on day one
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/halo-reach
Bungie's last Halo game launched on 14 September 2010 and made $200 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch of the year until Black Ops. Its...
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Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites
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
Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin
Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...
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Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sad-keanu
A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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
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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
