As we all know that Alexa is a company which ranks different websites as according to their traffic details. Here are the top 10 sites according to them:
Number 1 is Yahoo (www.yahoo.com). The site popularly known for its mail, chat, directory and search engine.
Number 2 is Google (www.google.com). The site popularly known for its search engine. World’s number 1 search engine.
Number 3 is YouTube (www.youtube.com). YouTube is the best way to share your videos with the people who matter for you.
Number 4 is Windows Live (www.live.com). Live is the search engine from Microsoft.
Number 5 is Facebook (www.facebook.com). A social site which connects the people. You can manage your photos and friends easily.
Number 6 is Microsoft Network or MSN (www.msn.com). Portal of Microsoft, mainly used as a search engine and content provider.
Number 7 is Myspace (www.myspace.com). One more social networking site.
Number 8 is Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). One of the finest site of the world, you can use it as an Encyclopedia.
Number 9 is Blogger (www.blogger.com). Free site which provide the option of creating personal and topical weblogs.
Number 10 is again Yahoo (www.yahoo.co.jp). Yahoo in Japanese Language.
This way Alexa has huge rankings of websites. Recently they came with the downloaded version of the list of top 1,000,000 global website. To download the website list of 10th December 2008, please click here.
A sad news for the fans of the Lively, it is going to shut down after 31st of December 2008. Lively was a program developed by Google Lab, through the help of which you can be able to create an avatar in the way which you like and chat with your friends in the rooms which you design.
Google team has launched the Lively in July 2008 in Google Lab. The motive behind developing Lively was to provide the users an opportunity to be able to interact with their online friends and express themselves. Google always supports these type of activities as they have clearly mentioned it in their official blog:
Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it’s the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people’s lives.
Ultimately google has accepted that all risks are not going to pay off, and that is why they have decided to close it at the end of December. Read more about all this at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html
We spend most of our time inside a browser while online. Google is the most popular service provider which we uses for search, chat, emailing, news, shopping etc. Because we spend so much time online in a browser, there comes a question about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. People are watching and uploading videos, chatting with each other playing web based games which were not possible in earlier browsers. Google Chrome, going to launch today, is what that meets the new demands of current users and applications. It is Google’s open source browser project.
Today’s web applications demand more and more. Browser needs to be stable that is there should be no crash while we re writing any email or editing a document. It should be fast and secure. It must have a clean simple and efficient user interface. All these features are supported well by the newly launched Google Chrome.
Google Chrome’s browser window is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web.
It is able to run today’s complex web applications much better. It deals with multiple processes instead of multithreading. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, it prevents one tab from crashing another and provides improved protection from rogue sites. It is based on a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers. If there is a browser bug in renderer, it will lose only one tab instead of crashing the whole browser.
Google Chrome is another option to provide more options and innovation to the web. For more details visit http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome
Google has launched a new search tool- Google Insights for Search for advertisers and marketers to understand search behavior. The new tool tracks a particular search term’s popularity across the Web and geographic regions of the world.
The tool allows the user to just type the keyword in the search term to see search volume patterns over time, as well as the top related and rising searches. Also, it provides the way to compare the search volume trends across multiple search terms, categories, geographic regions, or specific time ranges.
It is like an Add-on to Google trends. With Google Insights for Search, it can be analyzed that how much a term has been googled over time, where on a “heat map” it’s most popular, and what the top “related” and “rising” searches for the term are.
Filtration is provided to narrow the search area. Result can also be filtered by Geographic region, time frame, or category. The search results can be downloaded after signing in Google account. The output can be compared by keywords, locations and time ranges.
It gives a better view of output and an easy searching over the wide network. Searches according to our interest and avoid needless outputs.
Google has unveiled its new presentation tool which will make you enable to create your own videos by splicing and editing the available online videos. Along with Omnisio, an Australian based social video mash up service Provider Company, Google has given its users to play with the videos on Google video, Youtube and Blip.tv and make their own remix videos.
The users can annotate and share videos from various websites, can edit them and blend them together. One can even extract different sections of clips from the videos which can be assembled in the desired order to cherish your creative ideas. With its unique features, the new web tool will add a spice to many fun lovers.
Google-Omnisio binding for the new video package will give a creative touch to online videos and they will be more effectively explored.
This will not only be a great joy to fun lover users but the corporate people too have reasons to grasp the new feature. With the help of this presentation tool, presenters can now upload slideshows in PDF format or slide share and synchronize them with videos uploaded allowing viewers to jump around within presentations.