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2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

19 reconstructed results for tv in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for tv

  1. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/apple-tv-2010

    The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

    ProductVerifiedReconstructed result

  2. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/logitech-revue-google-tv

    Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

    ProductSupportedReconstructed result

  3. Hulu - Free TV on the web, with ads, US only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hulu

    Hulu streamed current episodes of network TV shows for free with commercials, a revelation in 2010 when most television was still cable or DVD. Hulu Plus, a...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  4. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo

    Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  5. The Annoying Orange - "Hey Apple!": the web series that became a TV show

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/annoying-orange

    Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, a talking orange with a human mouth and eyes, was one of the biggest channels on YouTube in 2010, with episodes routinely passing...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  6. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

    Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  7. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

    WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result

  8. Glee - The show whose covers topped iTunes every week

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/glee

    Glee was the pop-culture juggernaut of 2010: its cast recordings sold millions on iTunes, its Madonna and Lady Gaga tribute episodes were events, and "Gleeks" organised...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  9. Lost: The End - The series finale the internet argued about for weeks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lost-finale

    Lost ended on 23 May 2010 with a two-and-a-half-hour finale watched by about 13.5 million Americans and dissected on forums, Twitter and recap blogs for weeks. The...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  10. 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...

    ProductSupportedReconstructed result

  11. Shit My Dad Says - From a Twitter account to a CBS sitcom in a year

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/shit-my-dad-says

    Justin Halpern's Twitter account quoting his father's blunt remarks gained a million followers in 2009-2010, became a bestselling book in May 2010 and a CBS sitcom...

    MediaVerifiedReconstructed result

  12. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Twelve years later, the sequel arrives

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/starcraft-2

    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released on 27 July 2010 and sold three million copies in its first month. It relaunched competitive real-time strategy, Battle.net...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  13. Texts From Last Night - Anonymous drunk texts, sorted by area code

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/texts-from-last-night

    Texts From Last Night posted anonymous text messages submitted by readers, tagged only with an area code, and became a 2009-2010 phenomenon with a book deal and a TV...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  14. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

    CultureEditorialReconstructed result

  15. The Walking Dead premieres - AMC's zombie drama arrives on Halloween 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/walking-dead-premiere

    The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on 31 October 2010 to 5.3 million viewers, a cable record for a series premiere, and went on to become the most-watched drama on...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    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...

    searchgooglegoogle instant

  • 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...

    searchask.comask jeeves

  • 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...

    searchwolfram alphamaths

  • 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...

    portalyahooemail

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.

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