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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.
8 reconstructed results for walking dead in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for walking dead
- The Walking Dead premieres on AMC - 31 October 2010
- Red Dead Redemption is released - 18 May 2010
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
Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption
Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
necro - Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-necro
necro: Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon. Example: "nice necro, this thread is from 2007"
SlangEditorialReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
Know Your Meme - The internet's meme encyclopedia
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme
Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/alan-wake
Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...
GameVerifiedReconstructed 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...
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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.
