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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 wii in the 2010 exhibit.
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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Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/just-dance-2
Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...
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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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Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/call-of-duty-black-ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...
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Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix
In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...
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PlayStation Move - Sony's glowing-ball motion controller
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-move
PlayStation Move, released in September 2010, paired a glowing wand with the PlayStation Eye camera for precise motion control on the PS3. It was Sony's answer to the...
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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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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...
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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.
