Comments for Best Web Company in 2007: Facebook, Google, Apple Lead The Pack

Best Web Company in 2007: Facebook, Google, Apple Lead The Pack

2007-07-12T01:05:08Z

Our poll this week asks: Which Web company impressed you the most over the first half of 2007? Mid-week, Facebook has a handy lead over Google. Facebook has 34% of the vote, with Google second on 27%. Apple is third with 15%, probably reflecting the recent iPhone launch. Note that we added Adobe and Mozilla after about 100 votes, so the others got a bit of a head start.

If you haven't yet voted, please participate in the poll below:

Comment from Rich.List on 2007-07-11

2007-07-12T01:43:10Z

For me, it's meboo and upcoming, both are not listed in the poll.

Comment from Walter on 2007-07-11

2007-07-12T03:10:58Z

Pageflakes.com

Comment from gallonwang on 2007-07-11

2007-07-12T05:04:08Z

i think google

Comment from Zach Beauvais on 2007-07-12

2007-07-12T10:01:44Z

While Facebook has been an incredibly impressive service and is certainly one of the most impressive websites to date, I have chosen 'Other' for the simple reason that Facebook impressed me a long time ago, and has never ceased. For 2007, however, I found Newsvine's new site to be the most impressive move. It's interactive nature, and easy navigation of millions of news items is very impressive indeed. The drag-and-drop content boxes adds a little cleverness to the mix, and the fact that there is actually readable content among the usual web-banter is enough to make it the most impressive service I've seen online in 2007!

Comment from Jermaine on 2007-07-12

2007-07-12T12:12:54Z

How could you even consider apple as a webco ?? comparing apple with google or facebook doesnt make any sense...

Comment from Sheeni on 2007-07-12

2007-07-12T14:11:10Z

C'mon Richard,

How do you even put Apple on this list? Launching the iPhone makes it a web company??? You tech bloggers should stop worshiping Google and Apple. It definitely puts a kink on your credibility.

Comment from Prolific Programmer on 2007-07-12

2007-07-12T21:50:55Z

Podshow and Spock

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-07-12

2007-07-13T01:07:13Z

I never thought the day would come when I had to defend Apple ;-)

Surely Apple is just as much a Web company as the others - iPod/iTunes is probably the best example yet of desktop/Web integration. The iPhone too is hugely innovative in terms of enabling web apps to run on it -- it's arguably the best web platform yet for mobile (altho Opera for one has done a lot of great stuff in that regard).

I'm not saying Apple is *only* a web company - obviously it is probably more involved in the hardware side of things. But it certainly has contributed a lot of great things to the web, so that makes it a web company in my mind.

What do others think?

Comment from Gurpreet Singh Modi on 2007-07-13

2007-07-13T12:43:33Z

No doubt Google has been an undoubtable leader