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Top 10 Most Popular Websites of 2015

1-Google Web Search

Google Web Search


Google Web Search, commonly known as Google, is considered the most visited and famous website of 2015. The owner of this web search engine is "Google Inc" and it has been handling over three billion searches daily that's why it is regarded as most used search engine in the USA alongwith 64.5% market share. This website was launched on 15 September 1997 and it was developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Google Search is written in Python, C++ and C and it is available in more than 123 languages.

2-Facebook

Facebook


Facebook, commonly known as FB, is regarded as the second most visited and popular website of 2015. Facebook is basically a social networking service whose headquarter is located at Menlo Park, California. This website was introduced on 04 February 2004 and it was developed by Mark Zuckerberg with his college fellows. Facebook is written in PHP, C++ and D while it is available in more than 40 languages, till August 2015 this website had monthly active users more than 1.18 billion.


3-YouTube

YouTube


YouTube comes on the number three in the list of the most visited and popular websites of 2015.YouTube is basically a video-sharing website whose headquarter is located at San Bruno, California. This website was launched on 14 February 2005 and its founders were three former employees of Paypal, it was advertised by Google for 1.65 billion $ and now it operates as one of the subsidiaries of Google. It is written in Java, Python and JavaScript. The users can view, upload and even share videos easily on YouTube.

4-Baidu

Baidu


Baidu is considered the fourth most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Baidu, Inc. is basically a web service company of China whose headquarter is situated in Beijing's Haidian District, and it was launched on 18 January 2000 and its founders were Eric Xu and Robin Li. Baidu.com provides a wide range of services such as, a search-engine for websites in Chinese language, images and files, it offers fifty-seven community and search services.

5-Yahoo

Yahoo


Yahoo! is regarded as the fifth most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Yahoo Inc. is basically a multinational technology company of America whose headquarter is located at Sunnyvale, California. It was founded in March 1995 and its founders were Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo! is well-known for its Yahoo! search engine, Web Portal and other services such as Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News, video sharing and its social media site, every month more than 700 million visit Yahoo! websites.

6-Amazon.com

Amazon.com


Amazon.com is considered the sixth most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Amazon.com, Inc. is basically a cloud computing and an electronic commerce company of America Headquartered in Sattle, Washington. It was launched on 05 July 1994 and its founder was Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com began as an online bookstore but later it expanded its services and now there is almost everything is available, now it has become the largest provider of all infrastructure services.

7-Wikipedia

Wikipedia


Wikipedia is regarded as the seventh most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Wikipedia is basically a free-content, free-access internet encyclopedia and it is supported and owned by "Wikimedia Foundation". This website was launched on 15 January 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales and very fastly it became a multilingual site as it created same versions in many other languages. Wikipedia has over thirty-seven million articles which are available in more than 250 languages.

8-Tencent QQ

Tencent QQ


Tencent QQ, commonly known as QQ, is regarded as the seventh most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Tencent QQ provides an instant messaging software service, it was developed by "Tencent Holdings Limited" which is a Chinese company and it was released on 1999, sixteen years ago. Tencent QQ offers a wide range of services such as, music, movies, online social games, microblogging, voice chat and shopping. Till January 2015, it has more than 829 million active accounts.

9-Twitter

Twitter


Twitter is regarded as the ninth most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Twitter is basically an online social networking website whose headquarter is situated in San Francisco, California. This website was launched on 21 March 2006 and its founders were Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. Twitter.com offers the service to users of sending and reading minimum 140-character messages which are called 'tweets'. Till May 2015, there are more than 500 million users of Twitter.

10-Taobao.com

Taobao.com


Taobao.com is considered the tenth most visited and popular website in the Alexa Internet rankings of 2015. Taobao is basically is a Chinese E-commerce website which offers its services for online shopping just like Amazon and eBay. This website was launched on 10 May 2003 and its was created by "Alibaba Group". Taobao marketplace provides consumer to consumer retail by offering a platform for individual entrepreneurs to open their online stores and also for the small businesses.

















































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