Top 10 Sites by Alexa (2012 April 3)
1. Google
Enables users to search the world's information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers unique features and search technology.
2. Facebook
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
3. YouTube
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide! 4 Yahoo! A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
5. Baidu.com
The leading Chinese language search engine, provides "simple and reliable" search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.
6. Wikipedia
A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License).
7. Windows
Live Search engine from Microsoft.
8. Blogspot.com
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs.
9. QQ.COM
China's largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in November, 1998. Presently, Tencent is aiming its operations at the strategic goal of providing users with a "one-stop online life service". Tencent's Internet platforms QQ, QQ.com, QQ Games, and PaiPai.com have brought together China's largest Internet community. Tencent's communications and information-sharing services include QQ.com, QQ Instant Messenger, QQ Mail, and search engine SOSO. Linked up with heavily used features such as forums, chat rooms, and QQ Groups, Tencent's Qzone has grown into China's largest personal Internet space. These services foster group interaction and resource sharing. Virtual products such as QQ Show, QQ Pet, QQ Game, and QQ Music/Radio/Live have been successful in providing entertainment and customization options to users. Mobile phone users can take advantage of a number of value-added wireless services. Tencent's PaiPai.com is a C2C on-line shopping platform that seamlessly integrates into Tencent's other community platforms.As of June 30th, 2009, the number of registered QQ Instant Messenger users has reached 990.0 million. Active users numbered at 448.0 million. Peak concurrent users have reached 61.30 million. QQ Games platform counted about 6.2 million users simultaneously on-line. QQ.com has become China's most visited Internet portal website. PaiPai.com has also become China's second largest Internet shopping platform.
10. Twitter
Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.