Informatio n Technolog y Trends

Worlds Most Visited Websites

Survey made by netcraft.com

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Men behind Google The search engine started with the name BackRub which operate on Standford servers for more than a year. The name came from the word googol, a mathematical term for the number represented by number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was launched 1998.

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a social networking website Launched in February 2004 Founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students

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video-sharing website Created by three former PayPal employees. Company is based in California It operates as a subsidiary of Google (Google bought it in November 2006)

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David Filo and Jerry Yang Founders (Stanford University) Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web YAHOO is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

BlogSpot

BlogSpot is a web-hosting service run by the folks who make blogger. As such it is freely integrated with Blogger.

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A Chinese search engines for websites, files and images. Founded by Robin Li and Eric Xu. Inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago in the Song dynasty. Literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

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Formally launched on January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger using the technology of a wiki pioneered by Ward Cunningham. Written as a complement or feeder to Nupedia

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Developed by Microsoft. Provide email services and search engine facilities. Replaced MSN Hotmail on May 2007.

Twitter is a social networking and a microblogging service website. Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey Website is based in california Original project code name was twttr.

This is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in Mainland, China. As of September 30, 2010, user accounts for QQ IM totaled 636.6 million. The number of simultaneous online QQ accounts exceeded 100 millions.

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11. msn.com

Worlds most visited websites

18. wordpress.com 19. google.de 20. google.com.hk
21. google.co.uk 22. yandex.ru 23. ebay.com 24. bing.com

12. yahoo.co.jp 13. linkedin.com

14. google.co.in 15. taobao.com 16. sina.com.cn 17. amazon.com

Survey made by alexa traffic ranking as of July 23, 2010 (owned by Amazon)

Most Visited Websites in the Philippines

Philippines Most Visited Websites

1. Facebook 8. Twitter 2. Yahoo 9. Friendster 3. Google ph 10. Wordpress
4. Google 5. You Tube 7. Wikipedia 11. Multiply 12. Sulit 14. Photobucket

6. Blogger 13. Windows Live

Web 1.0 Versus Web 2.0 Versus Web 3.0

Web 1.0
The information is published on the web in a static manner. Hyperlinking the pages and bookmarking were two of the most important aspect of the web1.0 world. Even today, more than 70% of the users are only familiar with web 1.0

Web 2.0

The term was coined by Tim OReily. There is very high importance given on usability and sharing. Widgets and tagging are two important features of Web2.0

Web 3.0

Purely a word coined as the next version of web2.0 It will be a maze / network of application working together homogenously.

Electronic sources:
www.google.com www.alexa.com www.wikipedia.com www.yahoo.com www.baidu.com www.blogger.com www.opensource.org