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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.

47 reconstructed results for mobile web in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for mobile web

  1. The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit

    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...

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  2. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/angry-birds

    Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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  3. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

    Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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  4. Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini

    Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...

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  5. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cut-the-rope

    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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  6. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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  7. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends

    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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  8. Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/doodle-jump

    Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...

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  9. Responsive web design - Ethan Marcotte names the idea, May 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/responsive-web-design

    On 25 May 2010, Ethan Marcotte published "Responsive Web Design" in A List Apart, combining fluid grids, flexible images and CSS media queries into one approach. Before...

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  10. jQuery 1.4 - Write less, do more: the JavaScript library on most of the web

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery

    jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...

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  11. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/miniclip

    Miniclip was where school computer labs went to play 8 Ball Pool, Club Penguin's ancestors and hundreds of other Flash games. In 2010 it claimed tens of millions of...

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  12. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

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  16. Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010

    Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...

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  17. Windows Phone 7 - Metro live tiles and a fresh start for Microsoft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7

    Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...

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  18. Texting in 2010 - Trillions of SMS messages, unlimited plans, and T9 thumbs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sms-texting

    Text messaging peaked in the early 2010s: Americans sent well over a trillion texts a year, teenagers sent thousands a month, and unlimited texting was the must-have...

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  19. 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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  20. HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g

    Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...

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  21. Motorola Droid X - Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/droid-x

    Following the 2009 Motorola Droid that put Android on the map in the US, the Droid X arrived on Verizon in July 2010 with a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and...

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  22. 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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  23. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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  24. MiFi mobile hotspots - 3G Wi-Fi in your pocket, with a 5 GB cap

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mifi-hotspots

    The Novatel MiFi and its rivals turned a 3G connection into a small Wi-Fi network for a laptop and an iPad, typically for $60 a month with a 5 GB cap. In 2010 they were...

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  25. Lady Gaga: Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) - A nine-minute prison-break short film with product placement

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/telephone-lady-gaga

    The Telephone video, released in March 2010, was a nine-minute prison-and-diner short film co-starring Beyoncé, crammed with product placements for Virgin Mobile, Diet...

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  26. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bejeweled-blitz

    PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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  27. Ethan Marcotte - The designer who named responsive web design

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ethan-marcotte

    Ethan Marcotte, a web designer and A List Apart contributor, coined "responsive web design" in May 2010 and wrote the 2011 book that made it standard practice. Few...

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  28. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

    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 November 2010 it...

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  29. Amazon - Books, Kindle, and a store that sold everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amazon

    Amazon in 2010 was the everything store with a cluttered tan-and-orange homepage, two-day shipping for $79-a-year Prime members, and a Kindle business so successful that...

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  30. Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail

    Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...

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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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