theymos answered Saturday June 2 2007, 8:53 pm: **The list below is accurate and based on scientific data. It's not my opinion.**
**I'm surprised so many people think the answer is Google. Yahoo has for years been set up as the default homepage for new computers, and I think that explains it(it could also be that Alexa, whose traffic ratings everyone uses, is owned by yahoo...). The results below are global. In the US, Google is second, with about 24% of all internet users visiting it daily(yahoo is about 26%).**
Accurate alexa rankings:
1: yahoo.com (is often set as homepage when a computer is bought, the non-so-technically-inclined leave it)
2: msn.com (same as yahoo, it's set as a homepage)
3: google.com (google is set as a homepage, and is also used to search by almost everyone)
4: youtube.com (not only a social networking site like myspace, it's the exclusive video sharing site)
5: live.com (the old hotmail is now live.com)
6: myspace.com
7: baidu.com (a Chinese search engine)
8: orkut.com (Google's myspace)
9: wikipedia.org
10: qq.com (Chinese IM and social networking site) [ theymos's advice column | Ask theymos A Question ]
fabulous11 answered Saturday June 2 2007, 8:33 pm: agreed with the first person google is probaly the most popular.
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