Tell you the 15 most popular websites in America

Source: Internet
Author: User

If you were to list the 15 most popular websites in the United States, how much can you think of? You might think Google is hot and Facebook is hot. Maybe you still remember Yahoo. Of course, Amazon must be very hot to sell everything. Oh, yes, and ebay!, but we bet you can't tell all the other 10, and in order ... Thanks to comscore! They provide data for the 15 most popular websites in the United States in the December 2012. Let's see who they are:

15.cnn:5300 million visitors

Website type: Multimedia news website

The reason for the list: CNN is famous for its first burst of events. Their content is great, whether it's video, audio or text.

14.live.com:5600 million visitors

Website type: Microsoft's email website

Reason for listing: Microsoft makes their two major electric stamps, Outlook and Hotmail, available on live.com.

13.ehow:5700 million visitors

Website type: Teach You "this How to Do" website

List reason: Ehow content is very rich. Most of the content is the answer to specific questions that people often ask in Google. So most of their traffic comes from Google.

12.about.com:6200 million visitors

Website type: Teach You "this How to Do" website

The reason for the list: The New York Times bought it in 2005 and later sold it to IAC, the largest online travel service company in the United States. About and ehow very much like, is also to answer the question the main website, Google brought them a lot of traffic.

11.ask.com 63 million visitors

Website type: Internet search engine

Reason to list: Ask is a very special search engine. After their parent company IAC acquired about it, there was a lot more to ask.

10.ebay.com:6400 million visitors

Site Type: Online auction and shopping site, related products include: Electrical appliances, clothing, sporting goods, etc.

Reason for listing: ebay has changed the way people deal with old things. Since its inception in 1995, ebay has acquired a number of brands, such as PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com and so on.

9.blogger::6700 million visitors

Website Type: Blog platform

The reason for listing: The blogger was just a small company in San Francisco at the beginning of its existence. They also struggled on the brink of bankruptcy, but later in 2002 Google's takeover saved the company.

8.bing.com:7500 million visitors

Website type: Internet search engine

Reason for listing: Microsoft has aggressively promoted its Bing, and has made a lot of effort to make Bing better, such as improved search algorithms. And Microsoft has paid for other sites to get Bing.

7. Wikipedia: 86 million visitors

Website type: free online encyclopedia platform

The reason: Wikipedia allows anyone to edit and publish content on their website, making Wikipedia a huge educational resource. Most of its traffic is brought by Google because it answers questions people ask on Google.

6.msn:1 billion visitors

Website Type: Microsoft's comprehensive website

List of reasons: MSN from an Internet service provider to similar Hotmail, MSN, such as the staging site for online services, is a comprehensive portal.

5.amazon:1 billion 5 million visitors

Site Type: Integrated online shopping site, sales of electrical appliances, clothing, sporting goods and even food

The reason for listing: At first, Amazon was just a small selling book site. But now it's a Web site from violin to beef jerky to the ipad without selling.

4.youtube:1 billion 28 million visitors

Website type: Watch, upload, share video network platform

Why: Google's takeover of YouTube in 2006 did give the site a new dynamism. Since then, more and more people have started to use YouTube.

3.facebook:1 billion 50 million visitors

Site Type: Social networking site

Why: Facebook president Mark Zuckerberg set up Facebook when he was a sophomore at Harvard University. The site was initially open only to Harvard students, and then slowly other schools joined in. Now, as long as you are over 13 years old, Facebook will not reject you.

2.YAHOO.COM:1 billion 71 million visitors

Site Type: Search engine and connect Yahoo's other services, such as Flickr, yhaoo finance, etc.

The reason for listing: Yahoo is one of the web portals that emerged from the 90 's. People go to Yahoo to watch all kinds of news and send and receive emails.

1.google:1 billion 91 million visitors

Website type: Internet search engine

The reason: Google in the actual late 90 to enter the search market, in fact, the market has been quite crowded, but they won the competition, because they are faster and more accurate. Now it has a variety of products, such as Gmail, Google Maps, + + and so on. It has become a way for people to surf the internet.

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