Top 5 Most Popular Sites In The World
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engines, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California nicknamed the Googleplex
Google's logo since 2015
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Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, in August 2014
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Formerly
| Google Inc. (1998–2017) |
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Type
| Subsidiary |
| Industry |
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| Founded | September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park, California |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
Mountain View, California
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The U.S.
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Area served
| Worldwide |
Key people
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| Products | List of Google products |
Number of employees
| 85,050 (Q1 2018) |
| Parent | Alphabet Inc. (2015–present) |
| Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
| Website | google |
YouTube, is the 2nd Most Pupular Site Youtube LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to videos. Videos deemed potentially inappropriate are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site
| Video hosting service |
| Founded | February 14, 2005 |
| Headquarters | 901 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, California,
United States
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| Coordinates | 37°37′41″N 122°25′35″W |
| Area served | Worldwide (except for blocked countries) |
| Owner | Alphabet Inc. |
| Founder(s) |
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| Key people | Susan Wojcicki (CEO) Chad Hurley (advisor) |
| Industry | Internet Video hosting service |
| Parent | Google (2006–present) |
| Website | YouTube.com (see list of localized domain names) |
| Alexa rank | 2 (Global, December 2018) |
| Advertising | Google AdSense |
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
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Mark Zuckerberg's profile (viewed from the login page)
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| Type of business | Public |
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Type of site
| Social networking service |
| Available in | Multi-Language(140) |
| Traded as |
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| Founded | February 4, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Headquarters |
1 Hacker Way
,(aka 1601 Willow Road) Menlo Park, California
U.S.
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| Coordinates | 37.4848°N 122.1484°W |
| Area served | United States (2004–present) Worldwide, except blocking countries(2005–present) |
| Founder(s) |
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| Key people | Mark Zuckerberg |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | Messenger Watch |
| Revenue |  US$40.653 billion (2017) |
| Operating income | US$20.203 billion (2017) |
| Net income | US$15.934 billion (2017) |
| Total assets | US$84.524 billion (2017) |
| Total equity | US$74.347 billion (2017) |
| Employees | 30,275 (June 30, 2018) |
| Subsidiaries | Instagram Oculus VR |
| Website | www www |
| Alexa rank | 3 (December 2018) |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 2.2 billion monthly active users (January 2018) |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | C++, PHP (as HHVM) |
Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: Bǎidù, anglicized), 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. It is one of the largest AI and internet companies in the world. The holding company of the group was incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. Baidu is currently ranked 4th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings
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Type of site
| Public |
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: BIDU |
| Founded | January 1, 2000 |
| Headquarters |
Beijing
,
China
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| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Robin Li (Chairman, CEO) |
| Industry | Internet |
| Services | Search engine |
| Revenue | CNY 84.809 billion
(2017)
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| Operating income | CNY 15.691 billion
(2017)
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| Net income | CNY 18.288 billion
(2017)
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| Total assets | CNY 251.728 billion
(2017)
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| Total equity | CNY 119.350 billion
(2017)
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| Employees |
(2017)
42,200 |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank | 4 (Global, September 2017) |
Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə) is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia based on a model of openly editable and viewable content, a wiki. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web and is one of the most popular websites by Alexa rank. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates on money it receives from donors.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name, as a portmanteau of wiki and "encyclopedia". Initially, an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 5,769,778 articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.
 
The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphsfrom several writing systems
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Type of site
| Online encyclopedia |
|---|---|
| Available in | 303 languages |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger |
| Website | wikipedia.org |
| Alexa rank | 5 (Global, December 2018) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | >309,295 active users and >79,226,273 registered users |
| Launched | January 15, 2001 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license
| CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL media licensing varies |
| Written in | LAMP platform |
| OCLC number | 52075003 |
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