TOP 10 MOST VISITED WEBSITES
1.Google
URL:- google.com TYPE:- Search engine
COUNTRY:- U.S.
Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services
and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,an online advertising service that places advertising
near the list of search results.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford
University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the
stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately
held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.
Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful,"and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".In 2004, Google moved
to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.In August 2015,
Google announced plans to reorganize its interests as a holding company called Alphabet Inc. When
this restructuring took place on October 2, 2015, Google became Alphabet's leading subsidiary,
as well as the parent for Google's Internet interests.
2.Facebook
URL:-facebook.com
TYPE:-Social network COUNTRY:- U.S.
Facebook is a corporation and online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park,
California, in the United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg
with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The founders had initially limited the website's
membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy
League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other
universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years
old was allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may
be higher depending on applicable local laws.Its name comes from the face book directories
often given to American university students.
After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends",
exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps and receive
notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user
groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their
friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Also users can complain or block
unpleasant people. Facebook had over 1.18 billion monthly active users as of August 2015.
Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny
for their privacy policies. Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began
selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion.
On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to
reach a market cap of $250 billion.Following its Q3 earnings call in 2015, Facebook's market
cap soared past $300 billion.
3.YouTube
URL:- youtube.com TYPE:-Video sharing
COUNTRY:-U.S.
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.
The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006,
it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share and comment on videos, and it makes use of
WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of
user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music
videos, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos,
and educational videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including
CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via YouTube, as part
of the YouTube partnership program.Unregistered users can watch videos, and registered users
can upload videos to their channels. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are
available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.
4.Baidu
URL:-baidu.com
TYPE:-Search engine
COUNTRY:-China
Baidu incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company headquartered at the
Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian District.
Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese search engine for websites, audio files and images.
Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike (an online, collaboratively-built encyclopedia)and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum.Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who studied and worked overseas before returning to China.In March 2015, Baidu ranked 4th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.
During Q4 of 2010, it is estimated that there were 4.02 billion search queries in China of which Baidu
had a market share of 56.6%. China's Internet-search revenue share in second quarter 2011 by
Baidu is 76%.In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the
NASDAQ-100 index.
5.Yahoo!
URL:- yahoo.com TYPE:-Portal
COUNTRY:-U.S.
Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, includingYahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising,online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sitesin the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! is thehighest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion readers per month, being the fourth most visited websiteglobally, as of June 2015. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websitesevery month.Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than30 languages."
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1,
1995. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, serves as CEO and President of the company.
6.Amazon
URL:- amazon.com TYPE:-E-commerce and cloud computing COUNTRY:-U.S.
Amazon.com, Inc., often referred to as simply Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud
computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the
United States.Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays,
CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software,
video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. The company also produces consumer
electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone—and is the world's
largest provider of cloud infrastructure services.Amazon also sells certain low-end products like
USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.
Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico. Amazon also offers
international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.In 2011, it professed an
intention to launch its websites in Polandand Sweden.In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.
7.Wikipedia
URL:-wikipedia.org TYPE:-Encyclopedia
COUNTRY:-U.S.
Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Those who can access the site can edit most of its articles.Wikipedia is ranked
among the ten most popular websites,and constitutes the Internet's largest and most popular general
reference work.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Sanger coined its name,
a portmanteau of wiki[notes 3] and encyclopedia. Initially only in English, Wikipedia quickly became
multilingual as it developed similar versions in other languages, which differ in content and in editing practices.
The English Wikipedia is now one of 291 Wikipedia editions and is the largest with 5,091,366 articles
(having reached 5,000,000 articles in November 2015). There is a grand total, including all Wikipedias,
of over 38 million articles in over 250 different languages.As of February 2014, it had 18 billion page
views and nearly 500 million unique visitors each month.
8.Tencent QQ
URL:-qq.com
TYPE:-Portal
COUNTRY:-China
Tencent QQ, popularly known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service developed by Chinese companyTencent Holdings Limited. QQ also offers a variety of services, including online social games, music, shopping,microblogging, movies, platform of games and group and voice chat.
As of January 2015, there are 829 million active QQ accounts, with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous onlineQQ users.
9.Twitter
URL:-twitter.com TYPE:-Social network
COUNTRY:-U.S.
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character
messages called "tweets".Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app.[10] Twitter Inc. isbased in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.[11]
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass
and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100
million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.The service also handled 1.6 billion search
queries per day.In 2013, Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been
described as "the SMS of the Internet".As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users,
out of which more than 332 million are active.
10.Google India
URL:- google.co.in TYPE:-Search engine
COUNTRY:-India
The google search engine located in the india is termed as the google india.Hindi language content
on google is increasing with the rate of 300% and google india provide you the facility to access the
hindi content easily on google,Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products,
acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers online
productivity software (Google Docs) including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive)
and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing (Google Chrome),organizing and editing photos (Google Photos), and instant messaging (Hangouts).
The company leads thedevelopment of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome
OS for a class ofnetbooks known as Chromebooks. Google has moved increasingly into communications
hardware: it partnerswith major electronics manufacturersin the production of its "high-quality low-cost"Nexus devices.In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.
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