4. Facebook
Social networking
Headquartered in Menlo Park, California
Mark Zuckerberg
Harvard University
Post pictures and activities
Social advertising
Exchange messages
1.3 billion active users as of June 2014
5. Google
U.S. headquartered
founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
multinational corporation specializing in Internet-
related services and products
Search engine
online advertising technologies
cloud computing, and software
6. Twitter
based in San Francisco
140-character messages called "tweets".
created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan
Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass
more than 100 million users posted 340 million
tweets per day in 2014.
7. Youtube
video-sharing website
headquartered in San Bruno, California
created by three former PayPal employees in
February 2005
has been owned by Google
upload, view, and share videos
Adobe Flash Video and HTML5
video clips
TV clips
music videos
8. Yahoo
an American multinational Internet corporation
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Search,
Yahoo Directory
Yahoo News,Yahoo Answers
online mapping,video sharing
founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994
Yahoo during July 2013 surpassed Google on the
number of United States visitors
9. Wikipedia
Internet encyclopedia
Wikimedia Foundation
sixth-most popular website
most popular general reference work
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
launched
wiki (from the Hawaiian word
for "quick“)