With the advent of the Smartphones, the usage of internet on desktops or laptops has massively reduced. Most of the users these days learn to use the internet to help them out with all queries they have without having to ask anyone. So, here are some of the best and biggest websites in the world as compiled by the Online News Point.
# Facebook
Facebook is hard to miss for a person who is new on the internet and needs no introduction because of the hype and recognition. Founded by Mark 
Zuckerberg in 2004, Facebook was the first website that was into online social networking. The site is most popular among people of all age groups but is widely famous among the teens. According to the Wikipedia, it had close to 1.3 billion active users as of June 2014.
# Wikipedia
The next big website which answers most of the queries is the Wikipedia. It allows anyone to access the site and edit the articles on the site. As of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors every month.
The site has over 22 million accounts out of which there were over 73,000 active editors globally as of May 2014. Wikipedia.org is simply the easy and best source of knowledge. It is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
# Amazon
With the headquarters in Seattle, Washington, the Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. Started as an online bookstore, it soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry.
The company was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called his “regret minimization framework”, which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the internet business boom during that time. Amazon was originally founded in Bezos’ garage in Bellevue, Washington. Amazon is also into the manufacture of the consumer electronics like the Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone.
Twitter is an online social networking service that allows users to send and read 140-character messages called “Tweets”. The site allows the registered users to read and post tweets and lets them access it through the desktop computers or the mobile apps.
Twitter was introduced in 2006 and the service rapidly grew worldwide with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. The site was one of the ten most visited websites and has been described as “the SMS of the internet” in 2013.
Twitter gains immense popularity over the web and has turned into ultimate piece of information because of the presence of the news organizations, politicians, and other industry-specific experts on the site.
# Taobao.com
Taobao.com is a Chinese website for clothing, accessories, jewelry, food, electronics, and more which is similar to eBay and Amazon operated by 
Alibaba Group. Founded by Alibaba Group in 2003, it facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online retail stores that mainly cater to consumers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
# Baidu
Baidu is a Chinese web Services Company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District, Beijing. It offers many services, including a Chinese language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu also offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.
Baidu is one of China’s most popular search engines. It employs thousands of China’s best engineers to continually update the quality and speed of its search engine.
# Yahoo
Yahoo.com is a search engine and platform that connects to users to other Yahoo properties, such as Yahoo Finance and Flickr. Yahoo is one of the original Web portals from the 1990s; it offers news, sports, finance, and email. It was the third largest search engine in 2013 and it is one of the world’s largest email service providers. According to the Alexa web rankings, Yahoo is the 4th most visited website.
# Google
Known as the search engine giant, Google.com is the most preferred search engine by most of the internet users. Google entered a crowded search 
engine market in the late 1990s, but won because it was the fastest and had a clean design. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they attended Stanford University.
# YouTube
YouTube.com is the platform for uploading, sharing, and watching user-created videos. It was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google, and the site got more popular.
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