Section 4

2010 Search

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

9 reconstructed results for macbook air in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for macbook air

Apple's "Back to the Mac": new MacBook Air and the Mac App Store - 20 October 2010
Lost airs its series finale - 23 May 2010

MacBook Air (late 2010) - Flash storage only, and an 11-inch model for $999
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/macbook-air-2010
On 20 October 2010 Apple reintroduced the MacBook Air in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes with flash storage instead of a hard drive, instant wake and no optical drive. At $999...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
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
Hard drives and the first SSDs - A terabyte for under $100, or 80 GB of flash for twice that
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hard-drives-2010
In 2010 a 1 TB desktop hard drive cost under $100, but solid-state drives were still exotic: an 80 to 128 GB SSD cost $200 to $300. Enthusiasts installed them as boot...
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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...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
iOS 4 - Multitasking, folders, and a new name
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ios-4
Apple renamed iPhone OS to iOS with version 4, released on 21 June 2010. It added multitasking (in a limited form), home-screen folders, wallpapers, a unified inbox,...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song
Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
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

The search engines of 2010

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.