2012's Top 17 Websites of the World


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It takes a lot for a website to become a favorite destination of millions who surf the web. Alexa, the web data company released its latest list of most popular websites, a ranking based on several criteria, including the number of visitors to the website and its global reach. From the entire list, here we compile the 17 top websites in the world 2012.

#17 MSN

Website: www.msn.com

Global rank: 17

Last year's rank: 9

Global reach: 5.882%

Global page views: 0.1278%

Sites linking in to MSN: 418,039  

MSN.com, once a simple online service for Windows 95 has now become the 17th most visited website in the world. The portal is mainly visited for shopping, news, money, e-mail, search, chat and more. The site has been online for more than 17 years. According to Alexa, about 28% of visitors to it come from the US.