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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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Amazon.com
Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they
might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest
possible prices. Site has numerous personalization features and services
including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews,
gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings,
travel, and photo processing.
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Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is a specialty
retailer of consumer electronics in the United States accounting for 19% of the
market. It also operates in Canada, Mexico, China, and Turkey. The company's
subsidiaries include Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in
Canada operates under both the Best Buy and Future Shop label. Together these
operate more than 1,150 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, China,
Mexico, and Turkey.
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Craigslist
Craigslist is a centralized network of online
communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections
devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs,
résumés, and discussion forums.
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DeviantArt
DeviantArt is a Worldwide American online
community with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork.
It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens,
Angelo Sotira and others. DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood
area of Los Angeles, California, United States. As of October 2009 the site
consists of over 11 million members, over 100 million submissions, and receives
around 100,000 submissions per day. The domain deviantart.com attracted at least
36 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
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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. Digg's popularity has prompted the
creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting
systems.
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Download.com
Download.com is an Internet download directory
website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Download.com offers content in four
major categories: Software (including Windows, Mac, and mobile), Music, Games,
and Videos, offered for download via FTP from Download.com's servers or
third-party servers. Videos are streams (at present) and music was all free MP3
downloads, or occasionally rights-managed WMAs or streams until it was replaced
with last.fm.
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eBay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that
manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and
businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.
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eHow
eHow is an online knowledge resource with more
than 337,000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on "how to
do just about everything". eHow content is created by both professional experts
and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a
hierarchy of categories.
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Google search
Google search is a web search engine owned by
Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives
several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
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Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online
database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production
crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in
visual entertainment media.
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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.
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Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by
Yahoo! Inc. and was as of June 2009, the 2nd largest search engine on the web by
query volume, at 17%, after its competitor Google at 74% and before Bing at
9.4%, according to Compete.com.
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YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website on which
users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube
in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for
$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. 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.
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