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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.
13 reconstructed results for robot unicorn attack in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for robot unicorn attack
- Robot Unicorn Attack is released - 4 February 2010
- Google announces "a new approach to China" - 12 January 2010
- WikiLeaks publishes the Collateral Murder video - 5 April 2010
- Anonymous attacks PayPal, Visa and MasterCard for WikiLeaks - 8 December 2010
Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack
Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...
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ftw - For the win; enthusiastic endorsement of anything.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-ftw
ftw: For the win; enthusiastic endorsement of anything. Example: "Robot Unicorn Attack ftw"
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Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt
Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...
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Motorola Droid X - Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/droid-x
Following the 2009 Motorola Droid that put Android on the map in the US, the Droid X arrived on Verizon in July 2010 with a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and...
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WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks
WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...
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Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010
Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...
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4chan - Anonymous, /b/, and the meme factory
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/4chan
4chan's anonymous image boards, especially /b/, generated much of the internet's meme vocabulary in 2010 and gave rise to Anonymous, which attacked PayPal and Visa in...
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Anonymous and Operation Payback - Guy Fawkes masks, LOIC, and the WikiLeaks payment war
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...
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Julian Assange - WikiLeaks' founder, the year's most controversial figure online
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/julian-assange
Julian Assange went from obscurity to global notoriety in 2010 as WikiLeaks published the Collateral Murder video, the war logs and the diplomatic cables. By December he...
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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....
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...
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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.
