In
the ultra-competitive world of the Internet, many websites have come
and gone over the years. However, there are some websites have taken
hold of the public’s imagination and become more than just websites.
They have become a part of our lives, as familiar to all of us as your
pet or your best friend. What would even come as a bigger surprise to
you is that some of the world’s most popular websites include some names
you’ve probably never heard before, while you may have heard of big
names like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Amazon, you probably may not have
heard of names such as
Baidu,
Tencent, VK or Yandex — but those are the most popular websites in
places like China, Belarus and Russia and because of the huge population
of places like China and India, popular websites in countries like
these are also very popular in the global scheme of things. The
list of the top ten most visited websites in the world has remained
virtually unchanged for quite a while now. This is due in part to the
brilliant business plans employed by the executives in charge of these
websites. The ability to anticipate future changes in the industry and
react to them has been critical in keeping these websites on top.
Here is a list of the top 10 most visited websites in the world according to Alexa
10 Most Popular Websites in The World Right Now (Global Ranking)
This
social networking and micro-blogging website has literally helped to
change the world we live in today. Thousands of protesters participating
in the recent uprisings in Egypt and Libya gathered together partly
because of Twitter. We have only scratched the surface of this powerful
communication tool and the best is yet to come.
Launched
in May 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) is the most popular
consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online marketplace in China catering to
buyers who value product selection and price competitiveness. With
around 760 million product listings as of March 2013, Taobao Marketplace
is one of the world’s top 20 most visited websites according to Alexa.
For the year ended March 31, 2013, the combined gross merchandise volume
(GMV) of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com exceeded RMB1 trillion.
Taobao Marketplace is a business within Alibaba Group.
A
networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates,
industry experts and business partners. Allows registered users to
maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in
business.
This
website is based in Mainland China and provides IM service, as well as
mail and a search engine. You can also do shopping and there is a dating
site as well. Currently, they count their total users at over six
hundred million. QQ is a social networking and microblogging service
utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface. China’s largest and
most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in
November, 1998. Presently, Tencent is aiming its operations at the
strategic goal of providing users with a “one-stop online life service”.
Tencent’s Internet platforms QQ, QQ.com, QQ Games, and PaiPai.com have
brought together China’s largest Internet community. Tencent’s
communications and information-sharing services include QQ.com, QQ
Instant Messenger, QQ Mail, and search engine SOSO. Linked up with
heavily used features such as forums, chat rooms, and QQ Groups,
Tencent’s Qzone has grown into China’s largest personal Internet space.
These services foster group interaction and resource sharing. Virtual
products such as QQ Show, QQ Pet, QQ Game, and QQ Music/Radio/Live have
been successful in providing entertainment and customization options to
users. Mobile phone users can take advantage of a number of value-added
wireless services. Tencent’s PaiPai.com is a C2C on-line shopping
platform that seamlessly integrates into Tencent’s other community
platforms.As of June 30th, 2009, the number of registered QQ Instant
Messenger users has reached 990.0 million. Active users numbered at
448.0 million. Peak concurrent users have reached 61.30 million. QQ
Games platform counted about 6.2 million users simultaneously on-line.
QQ.com has become China’s most visited Internet portal website.
PaiPai.com has also become China’s second largest Internet shopping
platform
Unlike
traditional encyclopaedia, Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited,
multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia’s 30 million articles in 287 languages,
including over 4.3 million in the English Wikipedia, are written
collaboratively by volunteers around the world. It is a free
encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License), it is offered in many different
languages. Started in 2001, the site can be rewritten and edited by the
users. A user can add content to any entry he wants, or start a new
entry.
What
could be described as the Google of China, Baidu is a leading Chinese
language search engine that provides “simple and reliable” search
experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including
MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile
search in China. Apart from being the most popular Chinese language
search engine, the site also provides over 50 other services.
This website stands for
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
This site provides just about every service you can think of and shows
no sign of slowing down, a major internet portal and service provider
offering search results, customizable content, chatrooms, free e-mail,
clubs, and pager.
This
is the most popular site specifically designed for sharing videos. It
was purchased by Google for over $1 billion. YouTube is a way to get
your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share
your videos worldwide! YouTube is a video-sharing website created by
three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since
late 2006.
The
popular social networking site was started by Mark Zuckerberg in his
college dorm room at Harvard in 2004. Since then, it has grown to serve
over one billion users worldwide. The service allows you to send
messages, as well as share pictures and videos. Just like Twitter,
Facebook has helped to assemble and organize people involved in protests
and demonstrations all over the world. There is no limit to the
popularity of this site.
This
website provides many features, the most famous being its search
engine. They also offer Gmail, their popular email service. Google also
owns YouTube and Blogger, so they control three of the most popular
sites in the world. It enables users to search the world’s information,
including webpages, images, and videos. It offers unique features and
search technology. Google also provides specialized searches through
blogs, catalogs, videos, news items and more. The search engine giant
also provides Internet services that let you create blogs, send email,
and publish web pages. It also has social networking tools, organization
tools, and chat tools, services for mobile devices, and even Google
branded merchandise.
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