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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.

31 reconstructed results for pop in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for pop

  1. 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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  2. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/plants-vs-zombies

    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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  3. fml - F*** my life; the sigh of the 2010 status update, popularised by the site FMyLife.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-fml

    fml: F*** my life; the sigh of the 2010 status update, popularised by the site FMyLife. Example: "dropped my new iPhone 4 on day one. fml"

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  4. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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  5. Lady Gaga - The most-followed person on Twitter, the meat dress, Bad Romance

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lady-gaga

    Lady Gaga was the biggest pop star of 2010: Bad Romance and Telephone ruled YouTube, she became the first person to reach 10 million Facebook fans and overtook Britney...

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  6. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending

    trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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  7. 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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  8. Justin Bieber - Sixteen, discovered on YouTube, and the most-searched person of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/justin-bieber

    Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by...

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  9. Delicious - Social bookmarking, sunset by Yahoo

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/delicious

    Delicious (originally del.icio.us) let people save bookmarks with tags and see what everyone else was saving. It had defined social bookmarking since 2003, but in...

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  10. Facepalm - Captain Picard, hand over face

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facepalm

    The facepalm, especially the still of Captain Picard with his hand over his face, was the standard forum and Reddit reaction to stupidity in 2010, along with the double...

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  11. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

    Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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  12. Friendster - The original social network, thriving in Southeast Asia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster

    Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...

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  13. Omegle - Talk to strangers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle

    Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...

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  14. Bieber Fever and the Beliebers - The first pop star made by YouTube and Twitter

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever

    Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...

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  15. u mad? - A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-u-mad

    u mad?: A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface. Example: "u mad bro?"

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  16. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo

    Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...

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  17. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

    Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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  18. Gizmodo and Gawker Media - The blog that bought a lost iPhone prototype

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gizmodo

    Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who...

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  19. Something Awful - The forums that cost ten bucks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/something-awful

    Something Awful's forums, where an account cost $9.95, were one of the most influential communities on the 2010 internet. Goons popularised Let's Play videos, ran early...

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  20. cool story bro - Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-cool-story-bro

    cool story bro: Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post. Example: "cool story bro"

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  21. facepalm - The gesture of despair at stupidity, used as a one-word reply.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-facepalm

    facepalm: The gesture of despair at stupidity, used as a one-word reply. Example: "*facepalm*"

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  22. Cracked.com - 6 Reasons the Listicle Ruled 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cracked

    Cracked.com, the former humour magazine, was at its peak in 2010 with numbered list articles about history, science and pop culture that were funnier and better...

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  23. 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...

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  24. Justin Bieber: Baby (feat. Ludacris) - The most-viewed video on YouTube, and the most disliked

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baby-justin-bieber

    Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked...

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  25. Lady Gaga: Bad Romance - The video that ruled YouTube in early 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bad-romance

    Bad Romance, released in late 2009, dominated 2010: it was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Baby overtook it in July, won Grammys in 2011, and its "Rah rah,...

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  26. 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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  27. bff - Best friends forever; also "bffl".

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-bff

    bff: Best friends forever; also "bffl". Example: "me and my bff at the Bieber concert"

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  28. 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...

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  29. Glee - The show whose covers topped iTunes every week

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/glee

    Glee was the pop-culture juggernaut of 2010: its cast recordings sold millions on iTunes, its Madonna and Lady Gaga tribute episodes were events, and "Gleeks" organised...

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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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