Most Popular Top 50 Websites Of The World

List Of Top 50 Popular Websites On The Web

Many people search on the web for top websites of the world. If you are one of them, this article for you because here I am going to tell you top and most popular 50 websites of the world.  This list of top 50 websites could help you to find some helpful stuffs on the web. A lot of people know about some popular websites such as Google , Facebook , Twitter , Linkedin etc but there are more websites on the web. Let's see the list of top 50 useful websites. I have excluded only adult sites from the list.



1. Google - Every internet user knows about Google. Google was founded by  Larry Page and Sergey Brin in September 1998. Google serves many useful services to internet users such as- Powerful search engine , mail, chat, social network , Online advertising network for advertisers and publishers ( Adword & Business ) , Image search , Free blogging platform for internet users, Google books etc. Read full list of Google Products.

2. Facebook- Facebook is the most popular social networking website of the world and it has around 1000 million users ( May 2012).  Facebook allows users to keep up with friends, upload images and videos , sending emails, video chat , create a page to promote their business, making money by creating a useful Facebook application , send gifts to friends, advertise products etc. It was founded in 2004 and owned by Facebook Inc. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz & Chris Hughes.

3. Youtube- The most popular video hosting & sharing website on the web that is owned by Google Inc where users can upload their own videos to gain popularity, promote business or make money with ads. It was launched in 2005. Salar Kamangar (CEO) and Chad Hurley (Advisor) are the  Key people of YouTube.

4. Yahoo- Yahoo is considered as a main competitor of Google. It also serves many useful services such as web portal, search engines, question - answering service , image search engine , news , mail , chat , video sharing , advertising etc.  It was launched in 1995 by Jerry Yang & David Filo.

5. Baidu- Baidu is the leading Chinese web services company that provides powerful search engines to find useful websites, audio files, images etc. It was launched in 2000 by Robin Li & Eric Xu.

6. Wikipedia- Wikipedia is the most useful reference website on the web that provides useful information about everything. Wikipedia is a free internet encyclopedia where you can find any kind of information. Wikipedia was created in 2001 by Jimmy Wales & Larry Sanger.

7. Windows Live- Windows Live is owned by Microsoft to extend Window user experience. Windows Live provides many useful services for free. It was created in 2005 by Microsoft.  Windows live is widely used for three popular services which are - Hotmail , Messenger and Sky Drive ( Free Online Storage ).

8. Twitter- Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites for micro blogging. Users can send and read short messages up to 140 characters. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams & Biz Stone .  Dick Costolo (CEO),Jack Dorsey (Executive Chairman), Evan Williams (Director) & Biz Stone (Creative director) are the key people of Twitter.

9. QQ (Tencent)- QQ is known as Tencent which is the most popular website in china that provides free instant messaging computer program. Tencent was launched in 1998 by Ma Huateng.

10. Amazon - Amazon is the leading website to shop products online. Amazon is the largest online retailer on the web. It was launched in 1994 by Jeff Bezos.

11. Blogspot- Blogspot is owned by Google. Blogspot.com is known as blogger.com that provides free blogging platform.  It was created in 1999 by Pyra labs.

12. Linkedin- Linkedin is the leading professional social networking site where people can find business opportunity, jobs, educational resources etc. You can also call it business networking sites that helps business owners to grow their business. It was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly &  Jean-Luc Vaillant. Reid Hoffman (Executive Chairman) & Jeff Weiner (CEO) are the key people of Linkedin.

13. Google India- Indian version of Google that is very popular in India.

14. Taobao- Taobao is the leading consumer to consumer Chinese marketplace for online shopping very similar to eBay and Amazon. It was launched in 2003 and owned by Alibaba Group.

15. Sina.com.cn- Sina is an online media company for Chinese. It was launched in 1998. Charles Chao( president, chairman, CEO), Herman Yu (CFO), Hurst Lin (COO) & LC Chang (Vice President)are the key people of Sina.

16. Yahoo Japan- Japanese version of Yahoo services.

17 MSN - MSN is a Microsoft Network website that was launched in 1995.

18 WordPress.com- Free blogging service provider similar to blogger. It was launched in 2005.

19. Google Hong kong - Google services for Hong Kong internet users.

20. Google Germany- German version of Google search and other Google related products.

21. t.co - Twitter uses t.co domain name to protect twitter from harmful and spamming activities.

22. eBay- Most popular website for online shopping and online auction. eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar. John Donahoe (CEO) and Pierre Omidyar (Chairman) are the key people of eBay.

23. Google Japan - Japanese version of Google search and its products.

24. Google UK - Local version of Google and its specific products for UK users.

25. GoogleUserContent- Users can see how & when Google crawls any web page. It helps users to see cached version of any web page.

26. Google France- French version of Google.

27. Bing- Powerful search engine by Microsoft. A great competitor of Google Search engine. Bing was launched in 2009.

28. Microsoft - Official website of Microsoft Corporation for products information , news and support for Microsoft users.

 29. Google Brasil- Google services for Brasil internet users.

30. Soso- Soso is one of the popular Chinese search engines to find images , videos , news , music and web.

31. Mail.ru - Mail.ru is the largest free email service of Russia. It was founded in 1998. Dmitry Grishinis the key people of Mail.ru . The website is owned by Digital Sky Technologies.

32. Tumblr - Tumblr is a great blogging system that offers free blog hosting service with many useful plugins. Very similar to Google's blogger.

33. Pinterest- Pinterest has become the third largest social network on the web. It's growing very fast. Pinterest is an online pin board where you can share your favorite image collection with your comments and favorite links. Great for bloggers to drive massive traffic to blog. It was founded in March 2010 by Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann.

34. PayPal- PayPal is a free online money transaction system that helps to keep secure your credit or debit card information. PayPal allows users to send & receive money online without using your bank account. You can also use it for online shopping. Many websites deal online business with PayPal . It was founded in 1998 by Ken Howery, Max Levchin, Elon Musk,Luke Nosek & Peter Thiel and owned by eBay Inc.

35. Babylon- Babylon is a dictionary and translation program that helps users to translate any language easily. It was founded in 1997 by Babylon Ltd.

36. Apple Inc. -Main website for Apple products and Apple related news. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak & Ronald Wayne.

37. Google Italy- Italian version of Google.

38. Google Spain- Spanish version of Google search and its products.

39. Google Russia - Russian version of Google.

40. Sohu -Popular Chinese website for news. It was founded in 1996 by Charles Zhang.

41. Craigslist- Most popular classified site on the web for jobs, housing , personals , for sale etc . It was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark.

42. Blogger- Free blogging platform by Google. Launched in 1999 by Pyra Labs. 

43. Internet Movie Database - IMDB is an online database for top rated movies. It was created in 1990 by Col Needham and owned by Amazon.com .

44. Flickr- Flickr is the largest picture gallery on the web. It allows users to chat , meet people and join groups. It was founded in 2004 and now owned by Yahoo Inc.

45. BBC Online- Official website of British Broadcasting Corporation. One of the leading news publishing site of the world.

46. iFeng- The leading new online media company that provides premium content.

47. Ask - Ask offers powerful search engine to find websites, images , videos , news , blog , map etc. Ask is question answer related search engine created in 1996 by  Garrett Gruener and David Warthen. 

48. Google Canada- Canadian version of Google.

 49. Go - Go is a great site for searchable web directory, news , sports and free email service.

50. Zedo- Zedo is a great ad network for rich media ads. It serves high quality ads to direct advertisers , websites and ad networks. It was founded in 1999 by  Roy de Souza.