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Google has released a list of 1000 most-visited sites on the web

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#985: dropbox.com — myth & folklore

Congratulations on achieving mythical status!

Another good one: #229: comcast.net - online games

#824 stackoverflow.com - Music

Interesting that Twitter places above Amazon.com, and Bit.ly places above NYTimes.com.

Also interesting that Scribd is the top-ranked YC startup, significantly ahead of justin.TV (which was the second-ranked that I knew of), and I couldn't even find Reddit, Digg, or Hacker News on the list. Though the data set is likely biased: geeks are far less likely to have Google Toolbar installed than the general population, and less likely to opt-in to allowing data to be collected if they have it.

Isn't it based on the ads they serve?

Was also posted two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1386244

The article said it was based on Toolbar logs, opt-in Google Analytics data, and a few miscellaneous sources like customer panels. I'd imagine that most of the big sites don't use Google Analytics (or don't opt-in to letting Google use that data if they do), so I'm guessing that Toolbar logs are the primary sources for most of these.

Didn't bother reading this one. Looked at the one from two days ago, saw double click ad planner and made assumption. You know what they say about assumptions.

They should have titled it the 1000 most-visited sites except for porn.

Apparently #135 (game2.com.cn which is in fact a gaming site by the looks of it) is porn.

As a csv file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/481380/top1000.csv

I always notice microsoft.com on these lists and don't understand how it gets so much traffic. What am I missing?

Random thought: default IE home page.

Isn't that msn.com?

I thought it went to Microsoft.com/go?fwlink= etc. And them pushed you to wherever (no idea if that counts, but if it did it could explain it)

Some of the obvious things that come to mind are: programming help, MSDN, Windows OS information and comparison between flavors, MS Office info and comparison between flavors, support, product help etc. These things all add up considering that they are on 90+% of desktops.

probably people going there to patch Windows or some other MS software

Relatedly, I thought it was interesting that Microsoft owns #3, #5, #6, #13, #23, #26, and #30 (as well as a chunk of #1).

it's kinda sad that you only need to go to #15 to hit below 100mm visitors/month number. You'd think by now, there'd be hundreds of sites with those numbers

also would be nice to see a top 1000 for domain names. i.e. combine all ebay.com/ebay.co.uk/ebay.co.jp etc.

Distribution of their web servers: http://lazyant.com/post/642248858/web-servers-of-the-most-vi...

Anyone else find it creepy that they've removed all of their own websites (Google, YouTube, Gmail), but stil feel it's fair to publish this data about everyone else (including their competitors)? "Do No Evil". Hmm.

Maybe they thought it was unfair to list their own sites.

Unfair how? Facebook gets more traffic than YouTube. Why not let the public make up their mind? Or publish two versions? Or somehow otherwise make data available about THEIR sites that they've made available about everyone elses?

Seems like a slightly pointless list otherwise... "Here are the top sites in the world!... except for the ones we've taken out."

Imagine, just for a moment, what would happen if the did release their data.

People would criticize their decision either way …

Unfair because they have the exact figures for themselves where they don't for others. It would be kind of slimy to know you have X visitors and then guess for everyone else. If you were in the same vertical as a Google service and were behind them it would seem very unfair, more so if you knew your traffic was actually higher than estimated.

If that's it, I wonder why BlogSpot (Google owned) is #7 on the list, and Orkut (also Google owned) is a few places lower.

I'm guessing that they filtered them out because they aren't of interest to the intended audience of this list (display advertisers). Only Google runs ads on Google search, and they aren't display ads.

Direct link, skipping the blog: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/

there's something a little strange about this list... based on our google analytics numbers -- and the listed monthly unique visitors -- we'd be ~125, yet we aren't even featured on the top 1,000.

something tells me that it isn't very accurate.

Remember that this list is how many people click google search results to get to the site

I didn't even no rapidshare was a real site. Any HNers use that? Occasionally my software shows up there on Google Alerts but I thought the site was bogus.

It's the largest file uploading service on the planet.

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