The World’s Most Popular Web Sites By Country [MAP]

The countries look funny  because each one is scaled to number of Internet users it has.

The results are fascinating: Google dominates most of North America,  Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific while Facebook wins out in the  Spanish-speaking parts of the America, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Researchers Mark  Graham and Stefano De  Sabbata note  that among the 50 countries where Facebook is listed as the most-visited  visited site, Google or YouTube (which Google has owned since 2006) came in  second.

Yandex accommodates three-fifths of Russia’s  search traffic. Yahoo takes Japan and  Taiwan.

And all that green explains why Baidu became the first  Chinese company  on the NASDAQ-100 index, although  the researchers were skeptical that it is No.1 in South Korea.

Mark Graham and De Sabbata”