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Alexa Top 500 Ranking Used for the Survey Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites (/siteaudit) Global (/topsites/global) By Country (/topsites/countries) By Category (/topsites/category) The top 500 sites on the web. 1 Google (/siteinfo/google.com) google.com Enables users to search the world's information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers... More unique features and search technology. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/google.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/google.com#demographics) 2 Facebook (/siteinfo/facebook.com) facebook.com A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and ... Morevideos. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/facebook.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/facebook.com#demographics) 3 YouTube (/siteinfo/youtube.com) youtube.com YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your... More videos worldwide! 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/youtube.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/youtube.com#demographics) 1 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites 4 Yahoo! (/siteinfo/yahoo.com) yahoo.com A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, cha... Moretrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/yahoo.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/yahoo.com#demographics) 5 Baidu.com (/siteinfo/baidu.com) baidu.com The leading Chinese language search engine, provides "simple and reliable" search exp... Moreerience, 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. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/baidu.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/baidu.com#demographics) 6 Wikipedia (/siteinfo/wikipedia.org) wikipedia.org A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-Sh... MoreareAlike License). 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/wikipedia.org#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/wikipedia.org#demographics) 7 Amazon.com (/siteinfo/amazon.com) amazon.com Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and disc... Moreover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Site has numerous personalization features and services including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/amazon.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/amazon.com#demographics) 8 2 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites QQ.COM (/siteinfo/qq.com) qq.com China's largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in Nov... Moreember, 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. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/qq.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/qq.com#demographics) 9 Windows Live (/siteinfo/live.com) live.com Search engine from Microsoft. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/live.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/live.com#demographics) 10 LinkedIn (/siteinfo/linkedin.com) linkedin.com A networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and busin... Moreess partners. Allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/linkedin.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/linkedin.com#demographics) 11 Twitter (/siteinfo/twitter.com) twitter.com Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.. 3 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/twitter.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/twitter.com#demographics) 12 Blogspot.com (/siteinfo/blogspot.com) blogspot.com 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/blogspot.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/blogspot.com#demographics) 13 Taobao.com (/siteinfo/taobao.com) taobao.com Launched in 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) is a popular consumer-to-consumer (C2C) o... Morenline marketplace in China. With more than 800 million product listings and more than 500 million registered users, Taobao Marketplace is the primary online shopping destination for the largest online population in the world and is one of the world’s top 20 most visited websites. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/taobao.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/taobao.com#demographics) 14 Google India (/siteinfo/google.co.in) google.co.in Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India.... More Interfaces offered in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/google.co.in#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/google.co.in#demographics) 15 Bing (/siteinfo/bing.com) bing.com Search engine developed by Microsoft. Features web, image, video, local, news, and product search.ch. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/bing.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/bing.com#demographics) 16 4 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites Yahoo! Japan (/siteinfo/yahoo.co.jp) yahoo.co.jp Japanese version of popular portal site. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/yahoo.co.jp#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/yahoo.co.jp#demographics) 17 Яндекс (/siteinfo/yandex.ru) yandex.ru Поиск информации в интернете с учетом русской морфологии, возможность регионального уточнения. ... MoreПараллельный поиск по новостям, картинкам, товарам, блогам, адресам организаций. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/yandex.ru#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/yandex.ru#demographics) 18 WordPress.com (/siteinfo/wordpress.com) wordpress.com Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design template... Mores, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection and other features. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/wordpress.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/wordpress.com#demographics) 19 新浪新闻中心 (/siteinfo/sina.com.cn) sina.com.cn 包括即日的国内外不同类型的新闻与评论，人物专题，图库。 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/sina.com.cn#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/sina.com.cn#demographics) 20 ВКонтакте (/siteinfo/vk.com) vk.com Социальная сеть как средство для коммуникации и поиска людей. Международный сервис, созданный р... Moreоссийскими разработчиками. 3.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/vk.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/vk.com#demographics) 5 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites 21 eBay (/siteinfo/ebay.com) ebay.com International person to person auction site, with products sorted into categories. 2.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/ebay.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/ebay.com#demographics) 22 Google (/siteinfo/google.de) google.de Suche im gesamten Web, in deutschsprachigen sowie in deutschen Sites. Zusätzlich kann gezielt n... Moreach Bildern, Videos und News gesucht werden. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/google.de#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/google.de#demographics) 23 Tumblr (/siteinfo/tumblr.com) tumblr.com A feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable temp... Morelates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network integration. 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/tumblr.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/tumblr.com#demographics) 24 MSN (/siteinfo/msn.com) msn.com Portal for shopping, news and money, e-mail, search, and chat. 4.0 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/msn.com#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/msn.com#demographics) 25 Google UK (/siteinfo/google.co.uk) google.co.uk The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as worl... Mored results. 6 of 7 09.08.2013 12:25 Alexa Top 500 Global Sites http://www.alexa.com/topsites 4.5 Stars Search Analytics (/siteinfo/google.co.uk#keywords) Audience (/siteinfo/google.co.uk#demographics) Prev12 (/topsites/global;1) 3 (/topsites/global;2) 4 (/topsites/global;3) 5 (/topsites/global;4) 6 (/topsites/global;5) 7 (/topsites/global;6) 8 (/topsites/global;7) 9 (/topsites/global;8) 10 (/topsites/global;9)
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