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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.
9 reconstructed results for super meat boy in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for super meat boy
- Old Spice posts "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" - 4 February 2010
Super Meat Boy - From Newgrounds Flash game to indie hit
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/super-meat-boy
Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million...
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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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epic fail - A spectacular failure; the superlative of FAIL.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-epic-fail
epic fail: A spectacular failure; the superlative of FAIL. Example: "Digg v4 = epic fail"
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Samsung Galaxy S - The start of the Galaxy dynasty
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-s
Samsung's first Galaxy S launched in June 2010 with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a fast Hummingbird processor, sold in the US under four carrier names (Vibrant,...
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Nintendo's best-reviewed game of the decade
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/super-mario-galaxy-2
Super Mario Galaxy 2, released in May 2010 for the Wii, added Yoshi and even more inventive gravity-bending levels to its predecessor's formula. It was one of the...
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Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare
Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...
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Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s
The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...
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Nintendo Wii - Still the best-selling console, four years on
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wii
The Wii remained the best-selling home console in 2010 thanks to Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Just Dance 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Its motion controls inspired both...
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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.
