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# Linkage patterns

## Top 50 most frequently linked-to sites

A ranking of the public Web sites most frequently linked-to from other public Web sites.

Note: in case of a tie, the Web sites are ranked alphabetically.

2000 | 2002
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1 | www.microsoft.com | 1 | www.adobe.com
2 | www.netscape.com | 2 | www.microsoft.com
3 | www.geocities.com | 3 | www.geocities.com
4 | members.aol.com | 4 | www.netscape.com
5 | www.yahoo.com | 5 | members.aol.com
6 | www.adobe.com | 6 | www.yahoo.com
7 | www.amazon.com | 7 | www.amazon.com
8 | www.altavista.com | 8 | www.google.com
9 | members.tripod.com | 9 | www.macromedia.com
10 | www.macromedia.com | 10 | www.cnn.com
11 | www.angelfire.com | 11 | www.altavista.com
12 | www.cnn.com | 12 | www.angelfire.com
13 | www.excite.com | 13 | members.tripod.com
14 | www.real.com | 14 | www.mapquest.com
15 | www.lycos.com | 15 | www.weather.com
16 | members.xoom.com | 16 | www.apple.com
17 | www.linkexchange.com | 17 | www.excite.com
18 | home.earthlink.net | 18 | www.lycos.com
19 | ourworld.compuserve.com | 19 | www.real.com
20 | www.apple.com | 20 | www.hotbot.com
21 | www.webcrawler.com | 21 | www.webcrawler.com
22 | www.webring.org | 22 | maps.yahoo.com
23 | www.thecounter.com | 23 | click.linksynergy.com
24 | www.usatoday.com | 24 | www.usatoday.com
25 | www.infoseek.com | 25 | news.bbc.co.uk
26 | www.zdnet.com | 26 | www.infoseek.com
27 | service.bfast.com | 27 | www.pbs.org
28 | web.mit.edu | 28 | www.washingtonpost.com
29 | www.hp.com | 29 | www.zdnet.com
30 | www.hotbot.com | 30 | www.cnet.com
31 | www.w3.org | 31 | www.nytimes.com
32 | www.ibm.com | 32 | www.webring.org
33 | www.mapquest.com | 33 | service.bfast.com
34 | www.sun.com | 34 | home.earthlink.net
35 | www.intel.com | 35 | members.xoom.com
36 | www.weather.com | 36 | web.mit.edu
37 | leader.linkexchange.com | 37 | www.msnbc.com
38 | www.nytimes.com | 38 | www.php.net
39 | www.webcom.com | 39 | www.qksrv.net
40 | member.linkexchange.com | 40 | www.whitehouse.gov
41 | www.xs4all.nl | 41 | www.wunderground.com
42 | maps.yahoo.com | 42 | www.cdc.gov
43 | www.pathfinder.com | 43 | www.epa.gov
44 | www.primenet.com | 44 | member.bcentral.com
45 | www.mindspring.com | 45 | groups.yahoo.com
46 | www.pbs.org | 46 | www.house.gov
47 | home.t-online.de | 47 | www.ibm.com
48 | sunsite.unc.edu | 48 | www.paypal.com
49 | www.ozemail.com.au | 49 | www.w3.org
50 | www.teleport.com | 50 | www.apache.org