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.
13 reconstructed results for opera in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for opera
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5
Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/anonymous-2010
Anonymous, the loose collective born on 4chan, spent 2010 attacking anti-piracy groups and then, in December, the companies that cut off WikiLeaks: PayPal, Visa and...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones
Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette
Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay
The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-xp
Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-torch
Launched in August 2010 on AT&T, the Torch combined a slide-out keyboard with a touchscreen and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system with a WebKit browser. It was RIM's...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
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...
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...
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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.