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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
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
5 reconstructed results for professional in the 2010 exhibit.
LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/linkedin
LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Windows 7 - The Windows people actually liked, one year old
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-7
Windows 7 shipped in October 2009 and by the end of 2010 ran roughly a quarter of the world's desktop web traffic, while Windows XP still ran about half. Its Aero glass...
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CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor
CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...
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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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The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010
In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...
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The search engines of 2010
Google
- 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...
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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.
