List of top 10 websites in the world by  Alexa Internet  ranking based on page views.

#1   Google(google.com)
Google.com is basically a web search engine owned by Google Inc.  It is an american  multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin . Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

#2 Facebook(facebook.com)
Facebook is an online social networking website, California. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded  by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard  University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes on February 4, 2004.

#3 YouTube(youtube.com)
YouTube is a video-sharing website  in San Bruno, California. You tube was founded by  three former PayPal employees in February 2005 .You tube  has  been owned by Google in year 2006 .In  You tube users can  upload, view, and share his videos.
It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.


#4  Yahoo!(yahoo.com)
Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation in California.yahoo is famous for  its Web portal, search engine 
Yahoo Search, and other related services, like  Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online  mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. Yahoo is one of the most popular websites in United States. Yahoo was founded on January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo .

#5 Baidu(baidu.com)
Baidu is a chinese web services company founded on January 18, 2000 headquartered in Beijing.Baidu offers several services like chinese language search engine , files and images .
It was founded by Robin Li （李彦宏） in 2000 launched in Beijing China .The first office was located in a hotel room, which was near Peking University from where Robin graduated.In 2003 Baidu has launched it's new search engine and picture search engine.

#6 Wikipedia(wikipedia.org)
This a very well known famous name Wiki(Listeni/ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) popular for its content reach services.
It is a web application where user can  add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.Basically  wiki is a type of content management system,based on an open source cms wikimapia.

#7 Tencent QQ(qq.com)
Tencent QQ , that is popular with QQ name. QQ is an instant messaging software service .It also provide services like online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, and group and voice chat developed by Tencent Holdings Limited.QQ is a word used in chinese that means "cute" in English.

#8 Taobao(taobao.com)
On 8th Rank once again there is chinese website name Taobao . Basically Taobao is a chinese online shopping  website like eBay and amazon.
taobao is founded by Alibaba group on may 10,2003.

#9 Twitter(twitter.com)
The word twitter is very famous among people with its blue bird icon .It is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets", Twitter was founded by jack Dorsey, Evan williams, biz Stone and Noah Glass in 2006 headquarters
in San Francisco, California, United States.

#10 Windows Live(live.com)
Windows live is famous for its software products announced on November 1, 2005 to to extend the Windows user experience by Microsoft.