Top 5 Website of 2017 in the World Ever
Top 5 Website of 2017 in the World Ever
Ranking
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Site
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Domain
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Type
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Country
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1
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Google
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Google.com
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Internet services and products
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United State
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2
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Youtube
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Youtube.com
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Video sharing
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United State
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3
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Facebook
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Facebook.com
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Social network
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United State
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4
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Baidu
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baidu.com
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Search engine
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China
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5
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Wikipedia
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wikipedia.org
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Encyclopedia
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United State
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Google:
Google is an American multinational technology company
specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online
advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D.
students at Stanford University, in California. 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
Alexa, a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists
Google.com as the most visited website in the world. Several other Google
services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube
and Blogger. Google has been the second most valuable brand in the world for 4 consecutive
years, but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy
concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google's
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 October 2015, the motto was
replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase "Do the
right thing".
YouTube:
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered
in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal
employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – in February 2005. Google
bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as
one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate,
share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos, subscribe to other
users, 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 videos.
Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and
documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as
video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a
program which targets ads according to site content and audience. The vast
majority of its videos are free to view, but there are exceptions, including
subscription-based premium channels, film rentals, as well as YouTube Red, a
subscription service offering ad-free access to the website and access to
exclusive content made in partnership with existing users. As of February 2017,
there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and
one billion hours of content is watched on YouTube every day. As of April 2017,
the website is ranked as the second most popular site in the world by Alexa
Internet, a web traffic analysis company.
Facebook:
Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online
social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The
Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along
with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
The founders had initially limited the website's membership
to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education
institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford
University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other
universities, and eventually to high school students as well. Since 2006,
anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a registered user of
Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on
applicable local laws.[8] The Facebook name comes from the face book
directories often given to United States university students.
Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering (IPO) 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.[10] Facebook has more than 1.86
billion monthly active users as of December 31, 2016.[11] As of April 2016,
Facebook was the most popular social networking site in the world, based on the
number of active user accounts.[12] Facebook classifies users from the ages of
13 to 18 as minors and therefore sets their profiles to share content with
friends only
Baidu:
Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù, anglicized /ˈbaɪduː/
"by-doo"), incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web
services company headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian
District.[6] It is one of the largest Internet companies in the world.
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.[7] 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
December 2016, Baidu ranked 4th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.[8]
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%.[9] In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included
in the NASDAQ-100 index.
The company also hosts a music service, called Baidu Music,
that has more than 150 million monthly active users. On December 4, 2015, Baidu
announced plans to merge with Taihe Entertainment Group to help the service
compete with Apple Inc.'s Apple Music, which Apple plans to make available in
China
Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content
encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model
of openly editable content. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of
the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the
Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's
articles provide links designed to guide the user to related pages with
additional information.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous
volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and
make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is
restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute
anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real
identity.
Wikipedia is a live collaboration differing from paper-based
reference sources in important ways. Unlike printed encyclopedias, Wikipedia is
continually created and updated, with articles on historic events appearing
within minutes, rather than months or years. Because everybody can help improve
it, Wikipedia has become more comprehensive than any other encyclopedia. In
addition to quantity, its contributors work on improving quality as well.
Wikipedia is a work-in-progress, with articles in various stages of completion.
As articles develop, they tend to become more comprehensive and balanced.
Quality also improves over time as misinformation and other errors are removed
or repaired. However, because anyone can click "edit" at any time and
add stuff in, any article may contain undetected misinformation, errors, or
vandalism. Awareness of this helps the reader to obtain valid information,
avoid recently added misinformation (see Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia),
and fix the article
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