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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 toy story in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for toy story
- Google reveals its self-driving car project - 9 October 2010
Toy Story 3 - The highest-grossing film of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/toy-story-3
Toy Story 3, released in June 2010, was the top-grossing film of the year worldwide and the first animated film to pass $1 billion. With Avatar still in cinemas from...
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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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Line Rider - Draw a line, watch the sledder ride it
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/line-rider
Line Rider, the 2006 Flash toy where you draw slopes for a tiny sledder, was still a school-computer staple in 2010, and elaborate Line Rider tracks synchronised to...
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Digg - Social news, and the redesign that broke it
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg
Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...
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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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Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rage-comics
Rage comics were crude, four-panel MS Paint strips about everyday frustrations, drawn with a shared cast of stick-figure faces. Born on 4chan in 2008, they peaked in...
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Internet Explorer 6 - Nine years old, still used by millions, hated by developers
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-6
IE6, released in 2001, still had a meaningful share of browser use in 2010 (around a tenth worldwide, concentrated in China and corporate offices). Google dropped...
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Haters Gonna Hate - A strutting cartoon and a shrug at criticism
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/haters-gonna-hate
"Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as...
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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.
