Most Massively Popular Websites You've Never Heard Of - Part 2

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Most Massively Popular Websites You've Never Heard Of - Part 1

15. City-Data.com has statistics and demographics on many of the nation's cities. About 11.5 million unique visitors check it out per month, which is more than Netflix gets!

14. Inbox.com gives you 30GB of email storage for free, which is a lot more than Gmail gives you. 12 million people use it per month, which is more than UPS.com gets.

13. ChaCha.com is a community-based question and answer site that attracts 12 million people per month, which is more than popular job site CareerBuilder.com.

12. Evite.com lets you create free e-cards. 12.5 million people use it per month, which is more than the websites of Best Buy and MTV.

11. CoolMath-Games.com looks like it was made in the 90s, yet it attracts 13 million unique visitors per month. That's double the traffic of Bloomberg.com.

10. Squidoo.com is full of reviews, recipes, gift ideas, and more, all written by real people. 14.5 million people go there every month, which is more than super hot sharing site Reddit.

9. Apparently, MetroLyrics.com is the place to go for song lyrics. 14.5 million people check it out each month, which is more than People.com.

8. HubPages.com is for "every day experts," and attracts 15 million unique visitors per month. That's more than MySpace and Cnet.

7. Legacy.com is the place to find obituaries, tributes, and more. 16 million unique visitors a month check it out, which is more than CNN!

6. DailyMotion.com is a site for browsing popular videos. It brings in 17 million unique visitors per month, which is twice that of NFL.com.

5. Wikia lets you create wikis (which are like encyclopedia pages) for just about anything. 18 million unique visitors use it per month, which is more than Apple.com!

4. Manta.com is a search engine for companies and company profiles. It attracts 23 million unique visitors per month, which is more than AT&T's website gets.

3. Reference.com, which includes Dictionary.com, gets 28 million unique visitors per month. That's twice as many visitors as BankOfAmerica.com gets!

2. Go.com, a seemingly Disney-owned search engine, racks up 29 million unique visitors per month. That's more than Pandora and Comcast.

1. Ask.com is apparently still very popular with some people. We haven't used it for years, but Ask.com is still amassing 53 million unique visitors per month! That's more than the New York Times and Yellow Pages' websites combined!

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Mumbai students to get the Aakash tablet for Rs. 1,138

Mumbai college students will be soon given the Aakash tablet at a subsidised price of Rs. 1,138. It's notable that the market price of the ultra low-cost Aakash tablet is Rs. 2,500. According to a TOI report, the subsidised Aakash will be made available in 100 varsities including Mumbai University.

Rajpal Hande, director, board of college and university development, tells TOI that the department had issued circulars to all affiliated colleges and department in this regard and they have already given their requirements. Hande further says that the students might also be offered the upgraded version of the Aakash tablet a.k.a UbiSlate 7, which is scheduled to be launched in January.

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The official further says that the Aakash will help students access online content for different courses. To get the Aakash tablet, students need to place an order with their respective colleges or the departments concerned. The tablet will allow both teachers and students in the university to access online content whenever they require.

The Aakash tablet was sold out in less than a week after it was released online. DataWind, the maker of the Aakash, has stressed on pre-booking of the UbiSlate 7, which is said to be the upgraded version of the Aakash tablet. The UbiSlate 7 comes with various improvements over the original Aakash tablet and costs just Rs. 499 more.

The Aakash tablet is still not available in the retail stores and DataWind has not yet provided any information on its availability. You may wait for another few weeks to lay hands on a better version of the Aakash tablet.

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