When internet was found, its main function was to connect two or more computers with each other. Its founders may have not envisioned a wide web with millions of people as its active users and a vast sea of knowledge and wisdom. However, today it is a wide web across world connecting millions of people sharing information and seeking guidance. Millions of people are using it as their income source and much more fun waits ahead. As internet is so extensive today and there are, millions of website, a question knocks our mind what are the most popular websites of internet. I have compiled this list including some most popular websites among internet users as of 2018. This list consists of ranking from Alexa website ranking and Wikipedia list of most popular websites. Here goes our list, Note: This list is dynamic and ever changing.
1) Google.com:
Two student Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google when they were Ph.D. students at September 4, 1998. Its vision was to organize the knowledge of world, its primary focus was to crawl in webpages and give users search result relevant to their search term. Today google is the main search engine used across world with dozen of services provided by google.
Fun Facts about google:
The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it
Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub'.
As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ Since 2010.
Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week.
Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online
The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998.
Larry and Sergey's private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land
Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com
The first Google computer storage was built with Legos.
Google employees in the US get death benefits which guarantee that the surviving spouse will receive 50% of their salary every year for the next decade
No part of a Google office is allowed to be more than 150 feet away from some kind of food
Google helps pronounce massive numbers if you type '=english' after searching for a number
Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer
2) Youtube.com:
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.
Fun facts about youtube:
YouTube was Started as a Dating Site
Youtube plays pranks on its users every first april
YouTubers watch 6 billion hours of videos every month.
YouTubers watch 4 billion videos every single day.
YouTubers upload 300 hours of video every minute.
3) Facebook.com
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company. Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes found it. Facebook has more than 2 billion monthly active users making it the largest social media network across world.
Fun Facts about facebook
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, was the first major investor to back Facebook.
Sean Parker, co-founder of now-defunct music sharing site Napster, originally acquired the facebook.com domain name for $200,000.
A peer-to-peer file-sharing system called Wirehog was once a core function of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness. This is why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue
Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button.
Facebook stores approximately 300 PETABYTES of user data on its servers.
Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes.
Posts published between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST receive approximately 88% more interactions on average than posts published at other times of the day
Videos are the most-shared content type on Facebook.
4) Baidu.com
Baidu, Inc., incorporated on 18 January 2000, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian District.
Fun Facts about Baidu:
Baidu is the largest search engine in China
Chinese customers spend a lot of money online and they even don’t dislike online ads
Baidu sells bikes and builds driverless cars.
5) Wikipedia.com
Wikipedia – a free, web-based, collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its more than 20 million articles (over 5.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 regularly active contributors
Fun facts about Wikipedia:
Wikipedia's official theme song is "Hotel Wikipedia"
Wikipedia has a birthday committee
The least popular, but still active, alternate-language Wikipedia is Cheyenne
Wikipedia has a policy titled "No Angry Mastodons"
US Conservatives believe that Wikipedia has a liberal bias, so they've started up a competing Conservapedia
There's a competition to guess what the last article in Wikipedia will be
Wikipedia has a list of "deleted articles with freaky titles"
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