Tik Tok surpasses Google and becomes the most visited site in the world

Tik Tok has seen a rapid increase in the number of users.

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The “Tik Tok” application ranked first in the world in terms of use on all global sites, including “Google”, during the year 2021. A report by the “Wall Street Journal” showed that the application specialized in sharing short video clips topped global sites for the first time. in February and overall has remained in the number one position since last August.

The report said that the Tik Tok application was really everywhere this year, noting that it was the most visited site in the world on the Internet in 2021, surpassing Google by 1.89%.

The app, owned by the Beijing-based Chinese company ByteDance, has seen a rapid rise, attracting people with secret “algorithms” working to provide videos that it believes will appeal to users.

Earlier this year, TikTok announced that it had more than one billion monthly users.

The newspaper said that "Tik Tok", like other communication sites, has its dark side.

She added that investigations conducted by (the newspaper) found that the algorithms of the video-sharing application can direct minors to infringing videos.

"Tik Tok" first began to lead the scene as the most visited site in the world in February.

But his popularity grew in August, as he generally held the number one spot for the rest of the year.

TikTok was ranked seventh last year, but the report said that the 2020 list began tracking web traffic in September 2020.

Google, which includes search functionality, maps, language translation and other services, ranked second this year.

It was followed by Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Twitter, and WhatsApp.