Back in 2008, Fortune labeled Expedia one of the top 3 most admired internet companies and one of the best-managed companies in the same year.
owns a range of travel brands from to Tripadvisor, and their massive affiliate network has boosted their revenue to an all-time high in recent years. With 65 million registered users in more than 240 countries and offices in more than 70 locations worldwide, they’re the market leader in the online world goods trade.Įxpedia, Inc.
Alibaba focuses on facilitating trade between users across the world, and AliExpress focuses on smaller transactions between buyers and sellers worldwide. As far as search engine traffic goes, I get 64 times the amount of traffic from Google, so it is in fact these acquisitions and ventures that make them a hell of a lot of money, not their search engine.Īlibaba is the ultimate business-to-business tool and brings together importers and exporters from more than 240 countries and regions, all in one place. Yahoo! was founded back in March of 1995 and they certainly have their fingers in a lot of pies, acquiring over 60 different companies in the last 16 years. At no.4 on this list, it has a mammoth revenue, and the site covers many similar areas to Google, only just not as well. We often think of Yahoo! as the company that could never quite keep up with Google, even though it’s 2 years older, yet Yahoo! is so much more. They’ve even used some of the money that they’ve raised in the past to buy companies like Skype, before selling them for profit. Founded in 1995, eBay has acquired 35 companies in the past 13 years including 6 online auction sites in the US, South Korea, India, France, and Sweden, ensuring that they’re the No.1 name in online auctions. Starting out in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google grew into most users ‘go-to’ site for searching the internet, and their user-friendly mottos of ‘to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’ and perhaps more importantly ‘Don’t be evil’, has helped them to become the globally recognized brand that they are today.įounded back in 1995 (beginning to see a pattern emerging here) by Pierre Omidyar, this is without a doubt the best and most successful alternative to traditional online shopping, where you can effectively cut out the retailer to buy and sell between user and user, cutting costs and raising money for unwanted goods. The current leader in internet traffic is Facebook, so Google recently came out with their answer to that ‘Google+’. Google’s ability to come in and create instantly popular features such as Google+, makes it a force to be reckoned with for any website. There’s no doubt that Amazon has made a huge difference with where we shop in the last 15 years, with the closest website runner-up in sales being Staples with less than a third of the sales of Amazon. Selling an assortment of products across the world in countries as far as the UK, Austria, Japan, and China, Amazon is no longer just an online retailer, they’re the head of a very large family of companies such as IMDb, Lovefilm, Zappos, and Alexa. How Much Money Does Amazon, Google, and Facebook Make? Amazon – $34,204,000,000 $1,084 per secondįounded in 1994 and currently employing 33,700 people, remains the world’s largest online retailer, with the highest revenue of any company on this list. We hope you enjoy the list and please let us know what you think in the comments. This year, we put a lot more time and effort into it, to find the most up-to-date information, most people wouldn’t even know!įind out how many employees Amazon has, which sites Google has bought, who’s the most profitable, and much more! Three years in a row, we have looked at how much each of the top websites in the world earns on an annual basis.