20th place: Amazon (Amazon.com)
Number of independent visitors: 654.38+63 million
Introduction: Amazon.com is the most important online shopping website, with all kinds of electrical appliances, clothing, sporting goods and even food.
Growth process: Amazon initially hired only a few employees to package and deliver books. But later it grew into an all-inclusive shopping website, selling musical instruments and Kindle Fire tablets.
No. 19: Sina (Sina.com.cn)
Number of independent visitors: 654.38+69 million
Introduction: Sina.com is one of the media and UGC mobile portals in China.
Growth course: At the beginning of 20th century, Sina was regarded as "Yahoo of China". Sina Weibo was launched in 2009 and has more than 400 million users.
No. 18: WordPress(Wordpress.com)
Number of independent visitors: 6.5438+70.9 million
Introduction: Wordpress.com is a blog platform.
Growth process: WordPress is a very useful tool for publishing blogs and web pages, attracting a large number of users. As an open source tool, WordPress does not need to pay licensing fees, which is one of its advantages over other similar websites. In 2004, after the movable type changed the license agreement, many people turned to WordPress platform.
No. 17: Apple (Apple.com)
Number of independent visitors:1.71.700 million
Introduction: Apple official website.
Growth process: Apple Online Store is located in Apple.com and also provides support services for all Apple products. Apple is also the default homepage of Safari browser, and Safari browser is pre-installed on countless Apple devices.
No. 16: Sohu (Sohu.com)
Number of independent visitors: 654.38+75.8 million
Introduction: Chinese portal and search engine.
Growth course: Sohu was founded in 1997 and is the first search engine company in China. Sohu then developed into a large-scale portal website, providing game portals, real estate and other content.
No. 15: Ice ()
Number of independent visitors: 654.38+84 million
Introduction: Microsoft's search engine website.
Growth process: Microsoft invested a lot of advertisements for Bing, and spent a lot of energy to improve its usability by adding social sidebar functions and improving algorithms. Microsoft will also pay a fee to the website linked by Bing.
No. 14: Twitter (Twitter.com)
Number of independent visitors: 654.38+89.8 million
Introduction: Real-time communication platform
Growth process: Since its launch in 2009, Twitter has become a must-see website for people to learn about global news. News organizations, politicians and experts from all walks of life have set up accounts on Twitter, making it a very important source of information.
No 13: Taobao (Taobao.com)
Number of independent visitors: 207 million
Introduction: China e-commerce platform has merchants selling various commodities such as clothing, jewelry, food and electrical appliances.
Growth process: Similar to Yi Bei and Amazon, Taobao is also one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world. In 2003, Alibaba, the parent company of Taobao, announced that it was free to open a shop in Taobao, helping Taobao become a large shopping search platform.
No. 12: Inquiry (Ask.com)
Number of independent visitors: 218.4 million
Introduction: Search engine.
Growth course: Ask.com was originally named AskJeeves and was founded at the end of 1990. After its parent company IAC was acquired by About.com, many new contents were added to the website. At present, Ask.com can basically be regarded as the brand after Google search.
No. 1 1: blogger (Blogger.com)
Number of independent visitors: 229.9 million
Introduction: Blog platform.
Growth process: Blogger started from a small company in San Francisco and was deeply impacted by the bursting of the Internet bubble. Google acquired Blogger in 2002.
No. 10: MSN(MSN.com)
Number of independent visitors: 254 1 10,000
Introduction: Microsoft's portal.
Growth process: MSN was just an ISP at first, and later websites that people had to visit, such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger, all had portals on MSN. At present, it is a portal.
Ninth place: Baidu (Baidu.com)
Number of independent visitors: 268.7 million
Introduction: Chinese website, audio and picture search engine.
Growth: Baidu is one of the most popular search engines in China. It employs thousands of first-class engineers in China, and constantly improves the search quality and speed.
8th place: Microsoft official website.
Number of independent visitors: 27170,000
Introduction: Microsoft official website, users can purchase Microsoft software and hardware products and download software updates on the website.
Growth process: There are countless devices using Windows system all over the world. The bookmarks of these devices' built-in browsers include Microsoft official website, and users can find services such as customer support on this website.
Seventh place: Tencent (QQ.com)
Number of independent visitors: 284 1 10,000
China search engines and portals.
Growth: Tencent behind QQ.com has the most popular instant messaging tool in China. Tencent QQ has more than 700 million active users, which has also promoted the growth of Tencent's Qzone, Tencent Weibo and other products.
Sixth place: Instant Mail (Live.com)
Number of independent visitors: 389.5 million
Introduction: Microsoft's mail service.
Growth process: Through Live.com, users can access Hotmail and Outlook, two emails launched by Microsoft. Currently, users visiting Hotmail.com and Outlook.com will be redirected to Live.com.
Fifth place: Wikipedia (Wikipedia.com)
Number of independent visitors: 469.6 million
Introduction: Free online encyclopedia.
Growth process: Anyone can publish and edit content on Wikipedia, making it an excellent educational content platform. Like Answers.com, Wikipedia gets a lot of traffic from Google because it can answer people's questions on Google.
Fourth place: Yahoo (Yahoo.com)
Number of independent visitors: 469.9 million
Introduction: Search engine, which can also knock users down to other Yahoo services, such as Yandex mail and Flickr.
Growth process: Yahoo is one of the oldest portals, people are happy to visit Yahoo to check news, sports and financial information, and Yahoo Mail also has many users.
Third place: YouTube(Youtube.com)
Number of independent visitors: 72190,000
Introduction: Video uploading, sharing and viewing platform.
Growth: Google acquired Youtube.com in 2006, which made it more famous. Since then, people have been fascinated by all kinds of interesting videos on Youtube, through which they can find new stars such as Justin Bieber.
Second place: Google (Google.com)
Number of independent visitors: 782.8 million
Introduction: Search engine.
Growth process: Google entered the hot search engine market in the late1990s, and finally won by virtue of its speed and design advantages. Google currently provides Gmail, Google Maps, Google+ and other products, which is the way people explore the Internet.
No. 1: Facebook.com Facebook
Number of independent visitors: 836.7 million
Introduction: Social networking sites.
Growing up: Facebook was founded by CEO mark zuckerberg in his sophomore year at Harvard University. At first, it was only developed for Harvard students, then gradually expanded its user base to other universities, and finally opened it to all netizens aged 65,438+03.