Top websites now

Hmmm, Alexa’s current ranking of the highest traffic websites globally is interesting. Here it is for the week ending Dec. 12, 2007.
Rank Web Site
1 yahoo.com
2 google.com
3 live.com
4 youtube.com
5 msn.com
6 myspace.com
7 facebook.com
8 wikipedia.org
9 hi5.com
10 orkut.com
11 rapidshare.com
12 blogger.com
13 megaupload.com
14 friendster.com
15 yahoo.co.jp
16 baidu.com
17 fotolog.net
18 google.fr
19 microsoft.com
20 ebay.com
This ranking is traffic based. If you did it on time spent per user you’d see few search engines in the top rankings. Apparently YouTube beats everyone on weekends now using that measure. Also note that almost have hte sites in the top ranks are socially driven – a category that was just a sparkle a few years ago. Of course Google will be only 10 this coming year and web search search is still basically a teenager. Change happens fast.
Stephen