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I’ve been thinking if the internet is so large and if 5 websites are launched every second, then why is it that only some of them get recognition ?

Anyways if you hear someone saying "I can’t come, I am online now!" then he/ she is probably hooked up onto one of these most popular websites listed below. These are among the best websites in the world and the favorite places on the internet for many in their pastime.

Most Popular Websites Where People Spend Most of their Time

1) Google

Can you even think of a day when you surfed the net and yet not use Google to find something. In fact more than 6-8% of people online now are using the Google Search engine at this moment. Currently Google is the no. 1 search engine and its so frequently used, that the term "Google" has become a verb in major dictionaries meaning ‘to find info. using Google’ . Not only in search but other services like Gmail, GMaps, Blogger, Picasa etc are its top products. Recently they launched Chrome which has already become the 2nd among the most popular web browsers. Also the Chrome OS and Nexus Phone are the latest of their popular products. Learn more about Google here.

2) Facebook

Facebook has totally changed the way people keep in touch among themselves. A $300 million worth social networking site which has become the world second most popular website acc. to Alexa Ranking. This popular website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide. Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace. Another reason of Facebook’s popularity is due to large no. of applications it supports and the "games". Because of its massive popularity this most popular social website is banned from schools and collegesresulting in the developments of various hacks & proxies to access Facebook.

3) Youtube

Another popular website, or rather a video sharing website which has actually now transformed into a "watch popular videos for free" websites. Almost every type of TV shows, movie trailers, music videos, music albums, retro songs, how to guides, tutorials, education, funny, news, video blogging, junk etc can be found and viewed easily for free on this most popular video sharing website. Youtube was acquired by Google Inc. in Nov 06 for $1.6 billion and surpasses 1 billions daily pageviews.

YouTube is currently testing HTML5 technology, which allows videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed in your web browser.

4) Twitter

If some one is online now & not on Facebook then he/ she probably is on this crazy microblogging site called twitter. If you didn’t knew what microblogging means then it mean twittering, and btw, twittering means posting Tweets on your Twitter profile and Tweets means a short message about "what you are upto" in 140 characters or less even if its like "eating pancakes" . If you are not on Twitter and think that the idea seems crazy and stupid then don’t because not only Barrack Obama and NASA but also Bill Gatesuses it to post updates about himself. Twitter is popular but what makes it so special is the vast array of celebrity & vip presence on this most popular social website.

With only 156 employees working behind this site Twitter has more than 80 million users this social site is also easy to access from mobiles and hand held devices. Go Twitter !!!

5) Wikipedia

In the above paragraphs, few of the links point to Wikipedia. It is a free, non-profit website based on producing collaborative web content in an encyclopedic format. Wikipedia’s 14 million or more articleshave been written and can be edited by anyone. Its a huge database of knowledge and one can find any info. related to any topic. What makes Wikipedia so popular is because the content is user generated and hence readers get unbiased reviews an opinions. According to Alexa Ranking it has a world ranking of 6th most popular websites based on traffic activity. Recently they are going to launch a new beta version to improve it usability, learn more about the project or get involved, visit the Beta Version.

6) BBC News

This news site has earned its fame. From the most popular news channel it is now the most popular online news portal
. The site is "Europe’s most popular content-based site" and states that 15 million people in the UK visit the site each day. Recently BBC has launched a neat new ‘Most Popular Now’ feature that shows which stories are most watched and shared by people. This popular web site also has a "One-Minute-World-News" link which summarizes the most important news of the world in just a minute which is my favorite.

7) Digg | Stumbleupon

Both Digg and Stumbleupon are very popular user driven social bookmarking websites people user to share links to the web content they like most with others. This is popular because social bookmarking services provide web feeds for the lists of bookmarks but also its a great way for webmasters to drive massive traffic from these sites if their content is new and eye-catchy. Both Digg & Stumbleupon are among the world’s top 100 websites.

IMDB (Internet Movie Database)

IMDB is currently the world’s most popular movie information and review site. IMDB has 57 million visitors, 17 million of which are registered. The site is popular because of the movie ratings which help people to judge which movies are popular and which are not. Also, the information goes beyond simple title and crew credit, but also includes data on production and distribution, filming locations, plot summaries, box office performance, memorable quotes, awards, reviews, technical specs, promotional content, trivia, and links to official and other websites.

9) Rotten Tomatoes

Almost same like IMDB, the site has some of the most popular website about movies with heavy traffic on the Internet, ranking in the top 1,000 websites visited according to Alexa. It includes online reviews from authors that are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic associations. What makes the site popular is the Hip style of presentation (use of tomatoes) of movie ratings etc. After IMDB this the most popular website for movie reviews and ratings.

10) Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting site, and gained much popularity to now become like an online community. In addition to being the most popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media and it claims to host more than 4 billion images on 2009. Due to it massive popularity there have development of various applications and tools for better usage of Flickr albums. Though the service is free it is the source of many web designers and photographers to share and market their stock photos.

11) Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Forbes.com websites displays the slogan "Home Page For The World’s Business Leaders" and known to be the world’s most popular business website. What makes this website most popular among people as well as entrepreneurs and businessmen are the lists like the "The World’s Billionaires" and "Most Powerful Celebrities". Quite a good site for getting inspiration to be someone in life.

12) Craigslist

It is just a network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, resumes, and discussion forums. And just by doing this the simple site serves over twenty billion page views per month, putting it in 37th place overall among web sites worldwide and 11th place overall among web sites in the United States. Surprisingly the main source of web traffic for this site is mainly word of mouth.

13) Hot or Not

Hot or Not is an interesting and silly but yet a very popular website that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. The site also offers an instant match making engine called ‘Meet Me’ and an extended profile feature called ‘Hotlists’. The website is also popular because of its "Best of" and their blog. Although the photos can be a bit offensive sometime. After all we are talking about hot stuff here.

14) Torrent Sites

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15) Blogs

Believe it or not… but nowadays its all about blogs. Previously blogs used be an online diary where one could scribble their daily experiences with life etc. But nowadays the concept has changed. Blogging has revolutionized the way content, information on web in shared and distributed. In the Web 2.0 era,bloggers are like online journalists who review and cover different topics of their interests from politics and technology to entertainment and health issues. Blogging became more popular and widespread when people came to know about making money with blogs using Google adsense and other advertising companies. In 2008, it was Technorati was tracking more than 130 million blogswritten in English alone, and definitely the count is much more now in 2010. Check here after we’ve published the list of most popular web blogs.