Wikipedia provides an article containing a list of the top 100 sites in the world in terms of traffic, using Alexa and SimilarWeb as sources. The chart above shows the count of site types based on that list, and search engines are the top category by far. Now, it's interesting to see that this is due to the massive popularity of Google around the world: its localized versions in many countries make it into the top 100 list:

The USA is indeed a country of immigrants. In 2013, 41M people out of a total population of 316M were foreign-born, coming from all over the world. The top countries of origin on that list are Mexico, China, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam, but it's a true multinational and multicultural society that should be embraced!

Sometimes you look out the window and the view is so nice that it doesn't look like a normal window but rather like a picture that was presented to you instead. That was the case today.

I knew Colombia was one of the top flower exporters in the world, but a couple of days ago, with all the flowers going around for St. Valentine's Day, I wondered who the top exporter overall was. Not surprisingly, it's the Netherlands, with a whopping ~40% share of world exports.

For many years now, Google News has been my main source of information, because the algorithm stacks and orders headlines from multiple news sources quite nicely. Since Trump was inaugurated, I have had the subjective impression that his name is taking over most of the headlines (he is newsworthy, of course, but still). I did a quick n-gram check on the headline anchors, and his name is indeed taking many of the headline spots.

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