Top 10 Websites in the World

Here is the list of top 10 website in the world.They have been given ranking based on the amount of visitors they get.I have derived this information from Alexa and Wikipedia

1-Yahoo
Yahoo is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California

2-Google
Google Inc.is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet search and online advertising. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and has 15,916 full-time employees (as of September 30, 2007).Google's mission statement is, "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998.

3-Windows Live
Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are applications that need installing as well.Windows Live was announced on November 1, 2005

4-You Tube
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees.In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.

5-MSN
MSN (an abbreviation of Microsoft Network) is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. It was initially released on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of Windows 95. The range of services provided has changed significantly since its release. The Hotmail webmail service was amongst the first (as of May 7, 2007 it is being replaced by Windows Live Hotmail), followed by the instant messenger service MSN Messenger, which has been replaced by Windows Live Messenger.

6-Myspace
MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA

7-Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website, launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former Harvard student. Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard College. It was subsequently expanded to all Ivy League schools within two months. Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year.Since September 11, 2006, anyone 13 or older may join.Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region.

8-Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.Launched in 2001, it is the largest and dominant general reference work currently available on the Internet.
As of November 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.1 million articles in 252 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.41 billion words for all Wikipedias.

9-Hi5
hi5 is a social networking Internet service founded by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO.Throughout 2007, hi5 has been one of the most-visited sites on the web, consistently ranking in the top 25. hi5 reports having over 50 million members

10-Orkut
Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships.As of November 2007, 62.9% of the traffic come from Brazil, followed by 19.2% from India.