originally: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/archive/wcp/stats/linkage.htm
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.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 |