I am a big fan of lists in general. I found this list on compete.com. It shows the top 25 websites on the Internet. As you can see, the highly ranked classified ads website, craigslist, is number 14 overall. Google finally overtook Yahoo in terms of people count.

Craigslist is like Fedor Emelianenko of the classified ad world.

Source: Compete.com May 2008

1 google.com 135,291,588
2 yahoo.com 131,844,268
3 msn.com 78,408,649
4 live.com 76,890,429
5 ebay.com 71,904,536
6 myspace.com 60,267,059
7 youtube.com 58,661,346
8 aol.com 57,565,091
9 wikipedia.org 57,041,540
10 amazon.com 54,954,103
11 microsoft.com 53,037,685
12 mapquest.com 50,621,534
13 about.com 38,373,275
14 craigslist.org 37,463,362
15 go.com 33,639,174
16 blogspot.com 33,564,166
17 nextag.com 33,129,936
18 facebook.com 31,948,779
19 irs.gov 31,726,828
20 liveperson.net 30,340,333
21 cnn.com 29,091,022
22 ask.com 27,643,652
23 walmart.com 27,002,116
24 target.com 25,515,763
25 flickr.com 24,187,845