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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.
7 reconstructed results for ps3 in the 2010 exhibit.
PlayStation Move - Sony's glowing-ball motion controller
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-move
PlayStation Move, released in September 2010, paired a glowing wand with the PlayStation Eye camera for precise motion control on the PS3. It was Sony's answer to the...
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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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Heavy Rain - "Press X to Jason": the interactive drama
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/heavy-rain
Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, released in February 2010, was a PS3 thriller told through quick-time events and branching choices. Its ambition drew praise, its awkward...
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Gran Turismo 5 - Five years in the making, finally released in November
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gran-turismo-5
Gran Turismo 5, delayed for years, finally shipped on 24 November 2010 with more than 1,000 cars and a mixed reception for its uneven car models and long install. It...
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Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix
In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...
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PlayStation 3 Slim - Blu-ray, free online play, and the year the Other OS vanished
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-3-slim
The PS3 Slim, released in 2009 at $299, was Sony's console through 2010, with a Blu-ray drive, free PlayStation Network play and exclusives like God of War III, Heavy...
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Roku (2010 models) - The little box that made Netflix streaming a habit
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/roku-2010
Roku's 2010 line, the HD, XD and XDS at $59.99 to $99.99, were the cheapest way to get Netflix Watch Instantly, Hulu Plus, Pandora and Amazon on a TV. With the Wii, Xbox...
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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.
