World Wide Web's Top 3's

With the ever stiff competition among Internet websites, the frequently asked question now is whether who tops them all with regard to traffic, users, income, applications and a lot more. To finally end all the hustle here are the top threes of the world wide web.

We will start off with the top three search engines of the web according to popularity. Google ranks number one followed by bing and third on the list is Yahoo!. Google has 650,000,000 - estimated unique monthly visitors, bing and Yahoo! has 165,000,000 and 160,000,000 respectively.

The top three social networking sites on the web are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook now has 550 million users, Twitter has 180 million and LinkedIn has 100 million.

Say It In 140 Characters

A hundred and forty character is most associated with Twitter. Why a hundred and forty? We will talk about that later. First we have to go back to the time when Twitter is still at its modest years. Modest in terms of users and in terms of growth. It is a given right now that Twitter is becoming big, huge even, joining the ranks of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and other high ranking websites and social networking media.

Let's talk About YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. It is the third most visited website according to Alexa, after Google and Facebook. It was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Chen and Karim both studied computer science at the University of Illinois. The idea of creating YouTube have a lot of varying speculations. One which is very famous is that Hurley and Chen had experienced difficulty sharing videos shot at a dinner party at Chen's San Francisco apartment due to email attachments limitations. That's when the idea about YouTube originally sparked. Another speculation is that YouTube started out as a dating site dubbed “Tune In Hook Up”. The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 14, 2005. After the launch the founders had to struggle for finances. In November 2005, however, a lot of people and companies have invested large sums of money to keep YouTube running. In its initial operation, the site was flooded by an overwhelming number of videos uploaded on a daily basis. On November 9, 2006 YouTube was purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock.

Let Us Backtrack A Bit

My past blog posts have been articles with topics related mostly to social net working. I have been using the names of major networking sites many times. Facebook for example. I have been mentioning this major social networking site in almost all my posts. In fact I have been tagging it several times. My blog is focused on this topic so I will only be writing articles related to it. Social networking is quite a broad and relatively interesting topic. But I acknowledge the fact that eventually I will find it hard to write interesting articles or my articles would just get boring since I'm just talking about the same thing over and over without even noticing it. Those are problems commonly encountered by a lot of bloggers especially those who have been in the business for a long while. So I will backtrack a bit. I will be talking about how these social networking sites came to be. Before these social networking sites became almost indispensable these days, we will look at how they were created. So how was that? Still boring? =)