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Fri 7 Apr, 2006 12:14 am
I'am given a project to work on the top 50 sites which recieves the highest traffic. I googled them in
www.google.com and this is what i've found.
Quote:Top 50 sites
1. Yahoo:
www.yahoo.com: The first large scale directory of the internet, now a major portal offering search engine results, customizable content, chat rooms, free-emails, clubs, music, movies
2. Google:
www.google.com: Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. It also offers a web-based email service that includes over 2 gigabytes of storage (and growing).
3. Microsoft Network:
www.msn.com: Microsoft's newly renamed portal entry. Features personalization, channels of content sites like Carpoint, and integration with Hotmail e-mail.
4. CNet.com:
www.cnet.com
5. Ebay:
www.ebay.com The most popular online shopping mall providing free online auctions for products like mobiles/cell phones, cameras, computers etc
6. Myspace:
www.myspace.com: This site includes blog, forums, email, groups, games and events.
7. ESPN :
www.espn.com
8. Amazon:
www.amazon.com
9. Microsoft Corporation:
www.microsoft.com
10. Blogger:
www.blogger.com
11. BBC Online:
www.bbc.com
12. CNN(Cable news Network):
www.cnn.com
13. Go:
www.go.com
14. AOL(American Online):
www.aol.com
15. Craigslist:
www.craigslist.org
16. The Internet Movie Database:
www.imdb.com
17. Alibaba:
www.alibaba.com
18. Comcast.net:
www.comcast.net
19. Apple Computer:
www.apple.com
20. Xanga:
www.xanga.com
21. Adultfriendfinder:
www.adultfriendfinder.com
22. Geocities:
www.geocities.com
23. The New York Times:
www.nytimes.com
24. About:
www.about.com
25. Thefacebook:
www.facebook.com
26. You tube:
www.youtube.com
27. Fastclick:
www.fastclick.com
28. Weather:
www.weather.com
29. Orkut:
www.orkut.com
30. Mapquest:
www.mapquest.com
31. Yahoo! Search Marketing Quest:
www.overture.com
32. Mojowork:
www.mediaplex.com
33. Statcounter:
www.statcounter.com
34. Hi5.com:
www.hi5.com
35. Match.com:
www.match.com
36. FlickR:
www.flickr.com
37. Bank Of America:
www.bankofamerica.com
38. Friendster.com:
www.friendster.com
39. Earthlink, Inc:
www.earthlink.net
40. Download.com:
www.download.com
41. Netflix.com:
www.netflix.com
42. Gator.com:
www.gator.com
43. Macromedia:
www.macromedia.com
44. Reference.com :
www.reference.com
45. Photobucket.com:
www.photobucket.com
46. Hewlett Packard:
www.hp.com
47. Internet Archive:
www.archive.com
48. Webshots:
www.webshots.com
49. Imageshack hosting:
www.imageshack.us
50. Adobe:
www.adobe.com
The ranks vary from site to site. So could u please help me in adding/modifying some of them.
who's to argue with Google?
I was surprised that CNet was so high! MySpace I knew was up there - but still blows my mind how many people are on it! Looks like its provoking more ire this week:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS/60408004/1006/SPORTS
One problem with all of this is that Google, as is the case with any other search engine, only sees a portion of the web. It is more likely that sites enter a "top 50" list because they are known to search engines, rather than to assume that their content is the most cogent response to popular trends.
I have read that search engines only search less than 10% of all available sites. Additionally, there are millions upon millions of sites which provide technical and scientific information to people seek the information who are aware of the sites, but which are not polled by search engines, whose addresses will likely never show up in a search.
Set, I recently went through a familiarization course on querying the "deep web" , as its been named. Most of the stuff therein is in data table form and occupies lots of format space. There are things like satellite downloads and weather data that just generates tons of tables and it requires a different kind of querying. Im only familiarizing myself with remote data ports where things like recording bouys, seismic recorders, or meteorological stations dump into the web.
Ive been told that the web content doubles about every 40 days and most of this is just raw data fields.
That's also what i've read.
The question of this thread is a good one, and the references to Yahoo and Google are well-taken signposts to what is "popular" on the internet. They don't deal with even a significant fraction of what is out there, though.
just because somebody dumps data fields into the web, doesnt mean that anybody's gonna read it.
Its our civilizations archive of how we f***ed up the planet .
Would you surmise that this data is a valuable resource for facilitating research, say, an "accelerant" factor?
Google only uses 10% of the internet, sounds like the human brain! lol
set, its invaluable , because if were seeking some information about say, water chemistry from streams that drain facing sections of South America and West Africa, we can get these data if its been collected by some agency or research institution.
However, commercial interests dont usually use the web without heavy duty password control.
Apparently xanga and myspace are two sites heavily populated with these paedophiles . They use the sites and prey on kids. Weve had 2 very tragic murders and a series of kiddie porn cases in Lancaster County this year and the thing that all the cases had in common was that someone was trolling for kiddies on xanga.
Whenever we create a new technology we also create a collateral series of parasite evils that depend on the new tech.
Yeah, did you see that Dateline series on internet predators? There have been several of them in the past few months, all discusing how predators troll these social networking sites for kids. Saw this this morning, looks like MySpace is partnering with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and their resources to be more responsible about the kids on the site. Rupert Murdoch bought the site a few months ago, and many thought he would move towards these sort of safety measures, especially in the wake of crimes like farmerman said.
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