MCCORMICK – ALEXA ASSIGNMENT – ONLINE A
Alexa is a web site that tracks the most popular sites on the World Wide Web.
Visit the Top Sites page of the Alexa web site and review the first 10 sites on the
top 500 list. Which are Web 2.0 sites? What factors do you think contribute to
their popularity?
Use the table below to record your findings:
Name of
site
Global US
rank
rank
1
Google
1
1
Reputation Web 2.0
site (yes
or no)
2,597,386 yes
2
Facebook
2
2
3,524,860 Yes
3
3
4
1,735,136 Yes
4
YoutubeBroadcast
Yourself
Yahoo
4
3
1,220,774 Yes
5
Baidu.com
6
1
186,029
6
7
8
Wikipedia
Blogger.com
Windows
Live
Twitter
7
5
8
6
8
12
1,181,188 Yes
883,716
Yes
124,344
yes
9
7
3,008,171 Yes
10
2
239,469
9
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Yes
Description (what it is
for)
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page
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allows you to chat with
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videos
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allows you to look at em
Leading Chinese languag
search engine.
A free encyclopedia
Free web blog
Search engine from Mic
Social networking and m
blogging
Chinas largest and mos
internet site.