10 Most Popular Websites in the World
We all use the internet. You are using it right now, in fact. This list might seem pointless, because (like me) you probably think you know all the popular websites, but you might be surprised by some things on this list!
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- 10 years ago by NathanHutchcraft
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10 - Tencent QQ
QQ.com is a social messaging in China and Japan. It features a wide array of services, such as online video games, music, shopping, text messaging, blogging, as well as group, voice, and video chat. There are 829 million active QQ accounts. The site holds the world record for most users online at once on a instant message program, having 210,212,085 users online at once in 2014.
Source9 - Taobao
Taobao.com is an online shopping website in China, similar to Amazon.com. The site offers consumer-to-consumer retail by having a platform for individuals and small organizations to sell their good online. Although the site offers auction selling, it makes up a small percentage of the transactions of Taobao, with most of the sales being new items at a fixed price. There are over 760 million products listed for sale on the site.
Source8 - Twitter
The popular social networking site, Twitter.com, allows user to post short 140-character messages. Although a very limiting service, the simplicity of the site has caused it to become one of the top sites in the world, with over 50 million users. The company went public in 2013, and generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2014. The company's shares trade in the New York Stock Exchange.
Source7 - Amazon
Amazon.com is the largest online retailer in the United States. It started as a book store, but has grown to sell all products that can be listed on the site. Amazon also sells their own brand of consumer electronics, including the Kindle e-book, Fire tablet computer, Fire television, and Fire phone. They also operate as one of the worlds largest cloud computer providers, giving companies (from small business, up to major corporations) access to large server storage and online computing power.
Source6 - Wikipedia
Wikipedia.org is a completely free-to-access online encyclopedia with only free content. In it the largest collection of knowledge in all of human history. There are a total of 35 million topics covered, in 288 different languages. The site is known for being a reliable and quick reference source, which helps the site ti generate over 18 billion page views per month. That's 7,000 views per second!
Source5 - Yahoo!
Yahoo.com is a web portal that offers users access to many different online services. These services include a search engine, e-mail service, news source, finance advice source, question and answer service, advertising, video sharing, social media, and many more. The site claims to draw over half a billion users every month.
Source4 - Baidu
Similar to Yahoo!, Baidu.com offers many different online services to Chinese-language users. They provide 57 different services including search engine, e-mail, social media, encyclopedia, forums and more. The company went public in 2000 and trades in the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Source3 - YouTube
Youtube.com is an online video sharing sites that allows users to upload, share, and view videos. The site has been consistently growing over the last 10 years, and now is even considered the leader of “new media”, challenging the traditional industries of film and television. Although a vast number of the users are individuals, many large media corporations have pages as well. The site allows certain pages to monetize their content, with YouTube sharing the money generated from advertising revenue with the channel, as long as the content doesn't violate any copyright terms. Also, YouTube gives me a paycheck, so I only have nice things to say about that :)
Source2 - Facebook
Facebook.com is the worlds largest social networking site, with over 1.4 billion active users. One out of every five human beings on the planet access their Facebook account at least once month. First just a way to share pictures and text, as well as create a personal bio, Facebook has grown into much more than that in the last decade. The site allows for video sharing, marketing and advertising possibilities, and many other online services.
Source1 - Google
Google.com is a search engine owned by Google Inc., and is the most commonly visited website in the world. It handles over 3 billion searches a day, or about 35,000 every second. A simple-to-use site, Google hosts a complex and ever-changing algorithm that determines the order of search results, called PageRank. The success and reliability of this algorithm has helped Google claim the spot as most visited website on the internet.
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NathanHutchcraft
Nathan Hutchcraft is the creator and co-host of the YouTube web series, NathanAndRose. He also writes for several online sources, as well as having a nearly insatiable love for jalapeno pizza.
