A is for because it’s traffic we cite, although I don’t know how accurate it is. We could google it. ALEXA.com ( ranking in parenthesis ) B is for because they power the majority of China’s 4b monthly search queries, and that’s just the beginning of their business. BAIDU.com (4th) C is for because the news is the news of the owner’s interest and seeing a site for what it is isn’t popular. CNN.com (89th) D is for because digital storage will forever be a challenge and starting a site with the “duh” sound isn’t popular. DROPBOX.com (72nd) E is for because they convinced the average citizen they could make money on the internet. They used to rank much higher. EBAY.com (32nd) F is for because it’s the back-hole that controls a billion identities on the internet. FACEBOOK.com (3rd) G is for because our clicks on it fund the Alphabet, and it’s now the verb we trust to end any argument. GOOGLE.com (1st) H is for because I am evaluating pros and cons to “likeminded sponsorship” in the age of internet journalism. HACKERNOON .com ( 6,358th ) I is for because it filters the mundane and they take no shame in the . INSTAGRAM.com (16th) stories of stealing digital products J is for because why not connect China with the world’s consumers. So few sites start with “j.” JD.com (337th) K is for because it’s a Russian movie site, and the only .club to be #1 ranked site for it’s letter. KINOGO.club (256th) L is for because we like to pretend that doesn’t have a monopoly on googling things. LIVE.com (12th) GOOGLE M is for because it ranks higher than it’s parent but lower than its brother MSN.com ( 42nd ) MICROSOFT (44th) (LIVE, 12th). N is for because they set the market rate for the cost of streaming . NETFLIX.com (50th) entertainment O is for because we mustn’t’ forget that eyeballs are made to let our fingers know which ads to click on. ONCLICKADS.com (31st) P is for because if there’s a better way to organize images, it’ll be acquired into this alphabetical world. PINTEREST.com (45th) Q is for because who doesn’t love consuming their Chinese news via endless rows of font 8 headlines with no pictures? QQ.com (10th) R is for because no site structure was ever more perfect for the specific nature of the internet than upvote/downvote. REDDIT.com (25th) S is for because wow another Chinese media site… No matter the government, traffic monetizes. SINA.com (19th) T is for because maybe someday I’ll write a letter home saying, “Hey Mom, you won’t believe it, they verified !!” TWITTER.com (8th) me U is for because Portuguese is a beautiful language and this is the largest internet portal for Portuguese speakers. UOL.com.br (126th) V is for because Facebook does not own Europe! This St. Petersburg based social network has 369,000,000+ users. VK.com (15th) W is for because it’s re-writing any term beyond the dictionary. It’s .com redirects to it’s .org, only one on the list! WIKIPEDIA.org (5th) X is for because porn is the driving factor behind much of the internet’s innovations. XVIDEOS.com(74th) Y is for because all video in the history of the world should be on one site owned by , right? YOUTUBE (2nd) GOOGLE Z is for because questions and answers are the light and dark of the internet. Other than the URL, this site is not in English. ZHIHU.com (135th) Editor’s Note: Each site is the top Alexa ranked for the letter it starts with, except for and because the internet! “A” “H” “AH,”

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