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Best web services (all time)

A ranking of websites dedicated to a certain service. In other words, it's a ranking of services and programs accessible directly via a website, with no need to install an external program or app.

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Loc:
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Google Maps
1

Google Maps

(2005)
Google Maps is a desktop web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for trave...
9
9
as mapping web service
from 1 vote
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Booking.com
2

Booking.com

(1996)
Booking.com is an online booking website started as a small start-up in Enschede in 1996 (home of the University of Twente), based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and since 2005 owned and operated by United States based Priceline...
8.8
8.8
as travel web service
from 5 votes
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Piwik
3

Piwik

(2007)
Piwik is a free and open source web analytics software written by a team of international developers that runs on a PHP/MySQL webserver. It tracks online visits to one or more websites and displays reports on these visits for anal...
8.5
8.5
as web analytics tools
from 2 votes
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Airbnb
4

Airbnb

(2008)
Airbnb is a website for people to rent out lodging. Founded in August 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is privately owned and operated by Airbnb, Inc. Users of the site must register and create a pe...
8
8
as travel web service
from 1 vote
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Netflix
5

Netflix

(2007)
Netflix VOD is a video on demand service developed by Netflix Inc. The company introduced the streaming service in January 2007. Netflix's first big original series was House of Cards, which debuted in 2013, and Netflix now produc...
7.7
7.7
as video on demand service
from 13 votes
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Google Search
6

Google Search

(1997)
Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or just Google, is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web.
7.5
7.5
as web search engine
from 39 votes
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Hulu
7

Hulu

(2006)
Hulu (stylized as hulu) is an American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a consortium consisting of The Walt Disney Company (through Disney-ABC Television Group), 21st Century Fox (through Fox Entertainment G...
7.5
7.5
as video on demand service
from 2 votes
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Amazon Video
7

Amazon Video

(2006)
Amazon Video is an Internet video on demand service developed and operated by Amazon.com. It offers television shows and films for rental or purchase and as part of Amazon Prime subscription, selected titles can be viewed exclusiv...
7.5
7.5
as video on demand service
from 2 votes
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DuckDuckGo
9

DuckDuckGo

(2008)
DuckDuckGo (DDG) is a Internet search engine. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. DuckDuckGo e...
7.5
7.5
as web search engine
from 19 votes
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Gmail
10

Gmail

(2004)
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well as via POP3 or IMAP4 protocols. Gmail started as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it be...
7
7
as email web service
from 9 votes
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Open Web Analytics
11

Open Web Analytics

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source web analytics software created by Peter Adams. OWA is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database, which makes it compatible for running with an AMP solution stack on various web servers. OWA i...
7
7
as web analytics tools
from 1 vote
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OpenStreetMap
12

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across...
6.6
6.6
as mapping web service
from 5 votes
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W3Perl
13

W3Perl

W3Perl is a free open source analytics tool. The software can parse Web/FTP/Mail/CUPS/DHCP/SSH and Squid logfiles.
5
5
as web analytics tools
from 1 vote
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AWStats
13

AWStats

(2000)
AWStats is an open source Web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail, and FTP servers. AWStats parses and analyzes server log files, producing HTML reports...
5
5
as web analytics tools
from 1 vote
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iCloud Mail
15

iCloud Mail

iCloud Mail is a free email service and a feature of the cloud storage and cloud computing service iCloud from Apple Inc.
4.5
4.5
as email web service
from 2 votes
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Yahoo! Search
16

Yahoo! Search

(1995)
Yahoo Search is a web search engine owned by Yahoo. Originally, "Yahoo Search" referred to a Yahoo-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were p...
4
4
as web search engine
from 4 votes
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Bing
17

Bing

(2009)
Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Th...
3.9
3.9
as web search engine
from 17 votes
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Google Analytics
18

Google Analytics

(2005)
Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google launched the service in November 2005 after acquiring Urchin. Google Analytics is offered also in two additiona...
3.5
3.5
as web analytics tools
from 2 votes
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Outlook.com
19

Outlook.com

(1996)
Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. Outlook.com is not to be confused with Microsoft Outlook, a desktop software. One of the world's first webmail services, it was...
2
2
as email web service
from 1 vote
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Zoho Mail
19

Zoho Mail

Zoho Mail is an email web service from Zoho Corporation.
2
2
as email web service
from 1 vote
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Mail.com
19

Mail.com

(1995)
Mail.com Email is a web-based email service from Mail.com. It offers a free webmail application with unlimited storage.
2
2
as email web service
from 1 vote
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