You could read a boring old list of the web’s most popular website — or you could check out this sprawling infographic by Nmap.It was created by using a web script to scrape the favicons of the world’s most popular websites, as ranked by Alexa. Then, those favicons were scaled according to the amount of traffic that site gets. The largest icon is, of course, Google. I love these slick type mashups to convey a message and/or information. Although the viewer does not seem to be working at the time of this post in IE… but seems to work fine in firefox.

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