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The Top 10 Most Popular Websites

The most popular websites on the Web

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The following is a list of the most popular websites all over the world, as measured by Alexa, Google, and a variety of other search measurement factors. This list of the most popular websites is updated monthly and is meant to be for informational purposes only.

2. Google

Google is the most popular search engine on the Web.

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3. YouTube

YouTube is a popular video sharing/watching site, with hundreds of thousands of new videos uploaded every day.

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4. Yahoo

Yahoo is an extremely popular search portal, offering users free email, search, entertainment news, and much more.

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5. Live.com

Live, also known as Windows Live, is basically the Microsoft sign-in page for Microsoft's Web services.

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6. Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a user-generated encyclopedia, updated in almost real-time by hundreds of thousands of volunteer editors all over the globe.

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7. MSN

MSN is a Web portal that offers news, entertainment, sports, lifestyle stories, weather, and more.

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8. Microsoft

The Microsoft home page is the online headquarters for the most popular computer operating system in the world.

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9. Baidu

Baidu is the largest Chinese language search engine.

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10. QQ

QQ is the most popular instant messaging (IM) client in the country of China.

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