I have put together a list of the top ten most viewed websites of all time. I have used a couple of references from different websites to try and bring together this information: such as 'most popularwebsites' and Wikipedia.
At number one we have the social networking site Facebook. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg, it was initially made for Harvard students; but as Facebook's popularity grew it extended its reach to high schools and then anyone over the age of 13. At this moment in time Facebook is the most visited site on the web, the site had a reported 1.15 billion user’s active from March (Wikipedia, Facebook, 2013) the site is still growing and continues to be a social networking phenomenon.
Coming in at second place (only just) is the mighty surf engine giant Google. However Google is so much more than just a search engine, now with the ability to blog, share, create profiles and watch videos the mega giant is doing everything else, so its is understandable as to why it is so popular.
Youtube.com
Owned by Google and created by PayPal employees, YouTube is the largest video sharing website on the web. YouTube seems like a land of opportunity with people who have made thousands from their constant uploads of popular videos.
Videos that go viral are viewed millions if not billions of times, for example 'Charlie bit my finger' became so popular it now has 573,902,646 views. Some videos have even more, with 'PSY - Gangnam style' having over 1,789,567,178 views. Some of YouTube statistics can be found here, "YouTube has apparently more than 1 billion unique users visit each month".
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, it is known for its search
engine 'Yahoo search', but over time has developed a number of different features from yahoo mail, yahoo answers, yahoo weather and even yahoo finance. Did you know that Yahoo has 11,500 employees?Is a Chinese web service provider, it was established in 2000 by Robin Li. The site offers many services such as a Chinese search engine, images and Baidu Encyclopaedia which is China's largest encyclopaedia. It is the main search engine used in China; in 2010, it is estimated that there were 4.02 billion search queries in China.
