Google predictably is the most popular website followed by MSN/Windows Live/Bing, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia. Five other sites have more than 100 million unique users each — AOL, eBay, Apple, Amazon and Blogger. Here is a chart showing the top 100 websites.
The data was collected by Nielsen and covers America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and Australia. The figures show the number of unique users who visited each website in January. For more details, visit the BBC's Superpower page, where you can download the Nielsen spreadsheet.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media is the most visited news site followed by CNN and the BBC. The New York Times is the top English newspaper site.
WordPress is also on the list and so is Six Apart — the company behind Movable Type, TypePad and Vox — attesting to the popularity of blogging.
Twitter is the second most popular social networking site followed by Orkut and Linkedin.
Chase is the No 1 online bank followed by Bank of America and Citibank.
Wal-Mart is the top online retailer after Amazon.com.
The photo-sharing sites Flickr and Picasa are almost equally popular, ranked 38th and 39th respectively.
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