Top 10 Most Popular Websites in the World: The World Wide Web of the Internet is made up of millions of websites. Through these websites, we get the desired information from here in minutes. With just one touch or mic turned on, the information is revealed in a blink of an eye.
This information is provided to us through websites only. The search engine simply presents a list of websites according to the term we searched for (words that we type or speak to find information). We use the information from this list by accessing the website we want. And this process keeps on going.
It was a matter of basic Internet functioning that how information is searched from the Internet. But, have you ever wondered which website is the most used in the world? What is the name of the 10 most popular websites in the world?
Come, today I will introduce you to this exciting information and tell you which are the 10 popular websites which are most used in the whole world. My favorite website is number 2 in this list and tell me about your favorite website by commenting.
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Top 10 Most Popular Websites in the World
- google.com
- youtube.com
- Facebook.com
- twitter.com
- Wikipedia.com
- Instagram.com
- Baidu.com
- Yandex.ru
- yahoo.com
- Amazon.com
1. Google.com
In the song ” Lungi Dance “, a song from the Chennai Express Bollywood film , Honey Singh says, ” Hold me here, go home and google me, read about me on Wikipedia .”
From the lyrics of this song, you can guess how popular Google is. Which Bollywood is also including in the songs. Not only Bollywood, the world’s famous English dictionary Oxford has included Google as a verb. That is, when we search something on Google, then this action is called Google .
Google is the largest and most used search engine in the world. Through which crores of searches are carried out daily. You must have reached this article also through Google.
The search engine Google is used all over the world to find information from the Internet. And this website is preferred for giving the most reliable, accurate and fast information.
The Google search engine was launched on 4 September 1998. Then it used to do only 10,000 searches a day. But, today Google does about 1 lakh searches in just 1 second. Now it can be estimated from this that how many searches will be done in a year?
Even today, Google occupies at least more than 60 percent of the search share. Other search engines are not even close by far. If someone is giving competition to it, then it is also Google’s product YouTube.
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2. YouTube.com
These were just a few figures that are enough to tell YouTube’s story. The growth of YouTube has been increasing since 2005 till date. Today it has also become the second most used search engine in the world, only Google is ahead of it.
People are spending hours every day watching videos on this platform. Millions of people are earning their livelihood by creating their own YouTube channel . Along with entertainment, money is also being received. That is why its popularity is increasing day by day instead of decreasing.
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3. Facebook.com
The Facebook project , which started to communicate with college friends, became famous all over the world and became the most popular and trusted tool to stay connected with our close ones, which we know today as Facebook.
Facebook was started by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg and some of its associates on February 4, 2004 from the college room itself. Which was just a medium for college friends to talk to each other.
Sensing the potential in Idea, Mark took this project forward and Facebook is today the third most visited website in the world. Which has about two and a half billion (1.79 Billion Users) users worldwide.
The Facebook app is the fifth most downloaded app from the Play Store and ahead of it is Facebook Messenger, a product of Facebook.
We share all the activities of our daily life on Facebook. You can share your thoughts in front of the world in front of the world by sharing photos, videos, texts, animations, gifs and many more.
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4. Twitter.com
You must have heard the name of Twitter but have not used it. Because, Twitter is considered the media of the rich and the more educated. Common users have nothing to do with it. Perhaps this is the reason that only about 11 million people use Twitter in India, which is much less than Facebook and YouTube.
But, nevertheless, Twitter is counted among the most used websites worldwide and makes its place in the Top 10 Most Popular Websites List .
Barack Obama The former US President is followed by the most people on Twitter. No Indian politician, actor, sportsperson, journalist, business man is close to him.
The first tweet on Twitter was sent by its founder, Hon Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, which read, “just setting up my twttr.” Since then, Twitter has become so popular that there are about 10,000 tweets per second.
Twitter is a bit different from other social media websites. Here only you can publish post in 140 characters. With which videos, gifs can also be linked. Some of its special features are Twitter Space, Twitter List, Hashtag etc.
Here you cannot make anyone a friend, instead followers are made. Also you will not get like and dislike button. Only love button will be found.
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5. Wikipedia.com
The world’s largest online free encyclopedia is Wikipedia . Which was started in 2001 by Wikimedia Foundation. The founders of this foundation are the honorable Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
Since then, Wikipedia has been the most visited website in the world. About 60 million articles are available on it in more than 300 languages. On which about 17 million are edited every month. Which gets 2 billion visits every month.
This website is proving to be a treasure trove of knowledge for the students. On the Internet, people are writing by taking the information present on Wikipedia as correct. Using it as evidence.
If you also want historical and authentic information on any topic, then you can find it by going to Wikipedia. Because, there are lakhs of articles in Indian languages ββtoo.
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6. Instagram.com
After the ban of TikTok, there has been a flood of users on Instagram. The Indian people who were making Tiktok, all of them came on Instagram at once. Due to this the use of Instagram increased completely and it also made it to the top 10 websites of the world.
Today more than 1000 photos are uploaded on Instagram every second. Nearly 40 billion photos have been uploaded. More than 1 billion people use Instagram.
The first photo on Instagram was uploaded by co-founder Honorable Kevin Systrom of a dog. And today about 100 million photos are uploaded in a day.
Instagram has been bought by Facebook and is now a product of Facebook itself. You can also use it by downloading the Instagram app from Play Store and App Store.
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7. Baidu.com
Perhaps you have not even heard the name of this website. Because, this website is used only in the country of China in the world. Apart from this, this website is also used a little in Japan and America.
Baidu is a Chinese search engine that works like Google to find information. But, its scope is limited, which are limited to China only. Due to the Google ban in China, Google has not been able to prepare the Chinese version.
Despite being used in China, it is included in the top 10 websites of the world, which is enough to tell the extent to which it is used by the Chinese.
One line is enough for this, “Baidu is the Google of China.”
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8. Yandex.ru
This is the search engine of Russia. Which is used a lot in Russia. Well, Google is not banned here. But, still Russia has made its own search engine.
Apart from Russia, it is also used in neighboring countries like Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkey etc. By meeting these countries, a lot of users increase, which has proved to be enough to reach it in the top 10.
Like Google, Yandex also provides image, video, news, map, mail etc. facility in addition to web search. Microsoft’s Bing is nowhere to be seen in this list. It has also been overtaken by Baidu and Yandex.
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9. Yahoo.com
Before Google, the name of the website that was used to find websites is Yahoo . Yes, it is still there today and you will find many email accounts still operated from Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo continues to be used even today, but today it has lost a large part of it, which has been caught by Google. Yet Yahoo is providing all its old facilities.
Apart from websearch, you can take free facility of news, web directory, mail, map, image search, business news etc.
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10. Amazon.com
Do not be surprised to see this name because, now shopping has become online and the way of online shopping passes through Amazon. Therefore, it is no surprise that Amazon’s name is included in the top 10 websites.
Like Google, Amazon also provides local product search by country across the world. You will see products made for Indians on India Amazon, then on Japan Amazon you will find products made for Japanese.
The owner of Amazon is the honorable Jeff Bezos who has also been the richest person in the world. For the time being, his place has been taken by Elon Musk. But, Jeff Bezos has ruled this chair for many years.
You must also be using Amazon for online shopping and your friends, neighbors, relatives will also be buying from Amazon itself. Therefore, Amazon is the number one website in terms of shopping.
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Conclusion
In this post, I have told you the names of 10 most popular websites out of crores of websites present in the world. Along with this, some additional exciting facts have also been shared about them.
I hope you like this website list and prove useful to you. And yes, do tell the name of your favorite website by commenting.