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The Most Popular Websites in the World

February 9, 2007

Do you know which sites are the most popular in the world? Here are the top ten as per Alexa:

  1. Yahoo.com – What started as a link directory in 1994 by two individuals now reaches the largest audience of Internet surfers worldwide!
  2. MSN.com – Started in 1995. Services more than 400 million unique visitors per month.
  3. Google.com – No need to introduce, everyone knows about Google.  Services over 3 billion queries per month! The king of search engines.
  4. Baidu.com – Baidu is the leading Chinese language search engine. Receives more than 60 million hits per day!
  5. Youtube.com – Popular video sharing site. Debuting in 2005, fairly a new comer, now serves over 100 million clips per day!
  6. Myspace.com – Social networking website. Over 230,000 people register with myspace per day!
  7. Live.com – Search portal by Microsoft. Reaches about 140 million visits per day.
  8. Orkut.com – Social network service run by Google. Receives about 1.3 million visitors per day.
  9. QQ.com – Provider of popular free instant messaging computer program in China. Services over 5.490 hundred million accounts.
  10. Sina.com.cn – Leading news and content provider for Greater China and overseas Chinese. Over 230 million registered users worldwide and 500 million page views per day.