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How internet changed recently
Lately I’ve been wondering how did the internet landscape change in the last 2-3 years. So I wrote a short python script to compile a list of websites that are in top 5000 most popular websites this year, but were not in the top 200,000 most popular websites in 2008. So basically it is a list of popular websites that appeared (or became popular) in the last 2-3 years. Totally there are 821 such websites, and here is a list of them. Popularity data is taken as provided by alexa.com.
Some of these are adult websites(beware!), some of these are not in English language. But many are useful websites which existence you may not have known.
Popularity is measured by the number of connections to the website. These are not necessary when the user visits example.com, but may happen when the website that user visits connects to example.com, as in the case with googleusercontent.com.
First is popularity(alexa) rank(lower is better), then domain name.
The first 10 are:
5 blogspot.com
21 bing.com
32 googleusercontent.com
79 weibo.com
84 renren.com
95 fileserve.com
101 tmall.com
114 hotfile.com
119 imgur.com
127 stackoverflow.com