List of Best 50 Websites of 2009

[Jan]

I thought a social networking website would top the list but as per TIME's, Flickr - the popular photo-sharing portal has top the list.

TIME's list of 50 Best Websites of 2009 is:. Flickr

2. California Coastline

3. Delicious

4. Metafilter

5. popurls

6. Twitter

7. Skype

8. Boing Boing

9. Academic Earth

10. OpenTable

11. Google

12. YouTube

13. Wolfram|Alpha

14. Hulu

15. Vimeo

16. Fora TV

17. Craiglook

18. Shop Goodwill

19. Amazon

20. Kayak

21. Netflix

22. Etsy

23. PropertyShark.com

24. Redfin

25. Wikipedia

26. Internet Archive

27. Kiva

28. ConsumerSearch

29. Metacritic

30. Pollster

31. Facebook

32. Pandora and Last.fm

33. Musicovery

34. Spotify

35. Supercook

36. Yelp

37. Visuwords

38. CouchSurfing

39. BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager

40. Mint

41. TripIt

42. Aardvark

43. drop.io

44. Issuu

45. Photosynth

46. OMGPOP

47. WorldWideTelescope

48. Fonolo

49. Get High Now

50. Know Your Meme (ANI)

[hosting456]

Hi,

Very nice list. Thanks for sharing.

[James]

Facebook is way behind, I though it would be in the top five.

[Harry]

Never hear of Hulu
also was surprised to see Wikipedia trailing far behind Twitter !!!

[berty7386]

yeah its nice posting and its very useful for the seo starters thanx for posting
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[gecmark]

Thank you for your list.

[tomylee1]

oh thanks for the list.

[GreenJr]

Interesting. I wonder why the most popular and visited websites like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia are behind California Coastline, Metafilter and...Boing Boing? What are the criteria Time used to rank the websites?

[WH-Garry9]

Interesting. I wonder why the most popular and visited websites like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia are behind California Coastline, Metafilter and...Boing Boing? What are the criteria Time used to rank the websites?

Well, I am not too sure about the exact criteria they have used to rank sites, however, time claims that the rankings are given on the basis of sites which help you to navigate, enjoy yourself or just spending some time on the internet including shopping etc. However, most of the users think that the rankings are somewhat weird

[GreenJr]

LOL Yeah I don't blame them for thinking like that. At least the process seemed to be fair because their own website (Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com) doesn't show up on the list. Still, it's weird.

[mkplcl]

Very nice work .....

[synthesize]

Well, I am not too sure about the exact criteria they have used to rank sites, however, time claims that the rankings are given on the basis of sites which help you to navigate, enjoy yourself or just spending some time on the internet including shopping etc. However, most of the users think that the rankings are somewhat weird

I see. So the ranking is based on the layout, content and the service provided by the website and not based on its popularity? Well, I still think that Facebook deserves higher rank, but it's just me.