According to Alexa, the top 50 sites on the web as of today are:

1 google.com
2 facebook.com
3 youtube.com
4 yahoo.com
5 live.com
6 wikipedia.org
7 baidu.com
8 blogger.com
9 msn.com
10 qq.com
11 twitter.com
12 yahoo.co.jp
13 google.co.in
14 taobao.com
15 google.de
16 google.com.hk
17 wordpress.com
18 sina.com.cn
19 amazon.com
20 google.co.uk
21 microsoft.com
22 myspace.com
23 google.fr
24 bing.com
25 ebay.com
26 yandex.ru
27 google.co.jp
28 linkedin.com
29 google.com.br
30 163.com
31 flickr.com
32 mail.ru
33 craigslist.org
34 fc2.com
35 google.it
36 rapidshare.com
37 vkontakte.ru
38 conduit.com
39 google.es
40 bbc.co.uk
41 soso.com
42 imdb.com
43 livejasmin.com
44 doubleclick.com
45 go.com
46 aol.com
47 youku.com
48 bp.blogspot.com
49 apple.com
50 google.com.mx

It was interesting to see some of the other sites that cracked the top 50. In the top 20, I’d never heard of qq.com or taobao.com, but no surprise, since they’re Chinese-language sites. There are a lot of country-specific variations of popular engines. Yahoo.com.jp is the highest country-specific version of a popular site, just above google.com.in. Google’s Japanese version (google.com.jp) comes in at #27. For auction sites, Baidu sits at 7, while eBay is 25.

Other sites of note:
flickr.com – 31
craigslist.org – 33 (they must be grouping .com and .org)
adobe.com – 60 (wonder what it would be if they didn’t have Acrobat Reader?)
digg.com – 117
foxnews.com – 194 (to cnn.com’s 57)
slickdeals.net – 701
woot.com – 725
slashdot.org – 1304
fark.com – 2189 (I would’ve thought digg and fark would be closer)
wilwheaton.typepad.com – 74424 (thought this would be higher considering his millions of Twitter followers)

Interesting…