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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
1 www.microsoft.com1 www.adobe.com
2 www.netscape.com2 www.microsoft.com
3 www.geocities.com3 www.geocities.com
4 members.aol.com4 www.netscape.com
5 www.yahoo.com5 members.aol.com
6 www.adobe.com6 www.yahoo.com
7 www.amazon.com7 www.amazon.com
8 www.altavista.com8 www.google.com
9 members.tripod.com9 www.macromedia.com
10 www.macromedia.com10 www.cnn.com
11 www.angelfire.com11 www.altavista.com
12 www.cnn.com12 www.angelfire.com
13 www.excite.com13 members.tripod.com
14 www.real.com14 www.mapquest.com
15 www.lycos.com15 www.weather.com
16 members.xoom.com16 www.apple.com
17 www.linkexchange.com17 www.excite.com
18 home.earthlink.net18 www.lycos.com
19 ourworld.compuserve.com19 www.real.com
20 www.apple.com20 www.hotbot.com
21 www.webcrawler.com21 www.webcrawler.com
22 www.webring.org22 maps.yahoo.com
23 www.thecounter.com23 click.linksynergy.com
24 www.usatoday.com24 www.usatoday.com
25 www.infoseek.com25 news.bbc.co.uk
26 www.zdnet.com26 www.infoseek.com
27 service.bfast.com27 www.pbs.org
28 web.mit.edu28 www.washingtonpost.com
29 www.hp.com29 www.zdnet.com
30 www.hotbot.com30 www.cnet.com
31 www.w3.org31 www.nytimes.com
32 www.ibm.com32 www.webring.org
33 www.mapquest.com33 service.bfast.com
34 www.sun.com34 home.earthlink.net
35 www.intel.com35 members.xoom.com
36 www.weather.com36 web.mit.edu
37 leader.linkexchange.com37 www.msnbc.com
38 www.nytimes.com38 www.php.net
39 www.webcom.com39 www.qksrv.net
40 member.linkexchange.com40 www.whitehouse.gov
41 www.xs4all.nl41 www.wunderground.com
42 maps.yahoo.com42 www.cdc.gov
43 www.pathfinder.com43 www.epa.gov
44 www.primenet.com44 member.bcentral.com
45 www.mindspring.com45 groups.yahoo.com
46 www.pbs.org46 www.house.gov
47 home.t-online.de47 www.ibm.com
48 sunsite.unc.edu48 www.paypal.com
49 www.ozemail.com.au49 www.w3.org
50 www.teleport.com50 www.apache.org