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Alibaba.com
Alibaba.com is the world's largest online
business-to-business trading platform. Founded in 1999 by Ma Yun (Jack Ma),
Alibaba.com as of 31 March 2009 had more than 40 million registered users and 5
million virtual storefronts, and reaches buyers and sellers in more than 240
countries and territories.
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Business.com
Business.com is an Internet search engine and
web directory targeted primarily to an executive and corporate management
audience. The company of the same name also operates a pay per click advertising
network focused on the business-to-business market.
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CNET.com
CNET.com is CNET's online portal, providing
access to CNET's reviews, news, downloads, price comparisons and CNET TV as well
as web search powered by search.com.
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Digg
Digg is a social news website made for people
to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links
and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting
stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called
digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most
Dugg stories appear on the front page.
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Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as
Dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual
open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is
constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ODP uses a
hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar
topic are grouped into categories, which can then include smaller categories.
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The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel (also TWC) is a U.S. cable
and satellite television network that broadcasts weather forecasts and
weather-related news 24 hours a day. In addition to its cable TV programming,
TWC also provides forecasts for terrestrial and satellite radio stations,
newspapers, and websites, and maintains an extensive online presence at
weather.com.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative,
multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia
Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for
creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick")
and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 14 million articles (3.1 million in English) have
been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of
its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It is currently
the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
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YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website on which
users can upload and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno,
California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of
user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos,
as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media
corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of
their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
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