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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 wolfram alpha in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for wolfram alpha
- Minecraft enters Alpha - 30 June 2010
- Minecraft enters Beta - 20 December 2010
Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it returned calculated...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/minecraft
In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
1337 (leet) - Elite; the hacker-style alphabet of numbers and symbols, ironic by 2010.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-leet
1337 (leet): Elite; the hacker-style alphabet of numbers and symbols, ironic by 2010. Example: "1337 h4x0r"
SlangVerifiedReconstructed result
Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google
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 China, added a...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
jQuery 1.4 - Write less, do more: the JavaScript library on most of the web
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery
jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Markus "Notch" Persson - The one-man studio behind Minecraft
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson
Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...
PersonSupportedReconstructed 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...
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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.
