Verified
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
Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
10 reconstructed results for verizon in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for verizon
- Verizon switches on its 4G LTE network - 5 December 2010
- HTC Evo 4G launches on Sprint - 4 June 2010
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...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010
Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin
Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yahoo
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 Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol
AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
TechCrunch - Start-up news, bought by AOL
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/techcrunch
TechCrunch was the loudest voice covering Silicon Valley start-ups in 2010, from Michael Arrington's scoops to the Disrupt conference. AOL announced it was buying the...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
Palm Pre Plus and webOS - Cards, gestures and a company bought by HP
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/palm-pre-plus
Palm's webOS phones, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, arrived on Verizon in January 2010 with card-based multitasking that iOS and Android later copied. Palm's sales were...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook - Google's unbranded laptop that was only a browser
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chrome-os-cr48
On 7 December 2010 Google unveiled Chrome OS and shipped the matte-black, logo-free Cr-48 to testers in a pilot programme. The laptop ran nothing but the Chrome browser,...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
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.
