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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.

36 reconstructed results for open graph in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for open graph

  1. MySpace - The fading giant with glitter graphics and a Top 8

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/myspace

    By 2010 MySpace had lost its crown to Facebook and was shedding users and staff under News Corp, which had bought it in 2005. In October it relaunched as a "social...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  2. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption

    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  3. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

    Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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  4. God of War III - Kratos versus Olympus, in PS3 spectacle

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/god-of-war-3

    God of War III, released in March 2010, was the PlayStation 3's graphical showpiece of the year, with Kratos climbing titans the size of mountains. It sold more than a...

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  5. 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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  6. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/photobucket

    Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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  7. 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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  8. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

    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...

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  9. 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...

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  10. The Social Network - "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-social-network

    David Fincher's film about Facebook's founding, written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, opened on 1 October 2010 to rave reviews and won...

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  11. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - The $29 upgrade with no new features, and the Mac App Store on the way

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mac-os-x-snow-leopard

    Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...

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  12. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

    AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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  13. IMDb - The movie database, 20 years old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/imdb

    IMDb celebrated its 20th anniversary in October 2010. Owned by Amazon, it was the site everyone opened to settle who was in what, with its yellow-and-black branding,...

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  14. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ubuntu-10-04

    Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

    TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result

  15. Google Font API (Google Fonts) - Free web fonts for everyone, launched at Google I/O

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-font-api

    Google launched its Font API and directory in May 2010 with 18 open-source typefaces, including Lobster, Droid Sans, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Inconsolata. Alongside Typekit...

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  16. Bitcoin in 2010 - Ten thousand coins for two pizzas

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010

    Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....

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  17. Quora - Questions answered by people who were there

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora

    Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...

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  18. Dropbox - A magic folder that synced, 2 GB free

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/dropbox

    Dropbox gave you a folder that synced across your computers and phone, with 2 GB free and more if you referred friends. In 2010 it was the way students moved essays...

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  19. GitHub - Social coding

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/github

    GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js...

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  20. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

    Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

    TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result

  21. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/app-store-2010

    Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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  22. Symbian - The world's most-used smartphone OS, and nobody in Silicon Valley cared

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/symbian

    Symbian, the operating system on Nokia's smartphones, still had the largest share of smartphone sales worldwide in 2010, about 37.6 percent according to Gartner, ahead...

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  23. Mass Effect 2 - The suicide mission

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mass-effect-2

    BioWare's Mass Effect 2, released on 26 January 2010, opened the year with one of its most acclaimed games: a squad-recruiting space opera whose final mission could kill...

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  24. 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

  • 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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