1) MSN

Originally developed to compete with American Online, MSN is slowly being phased out to make way for Microsoft's Live service. But, as you can see from it being so highly ranked, it is still one of the most popular search portals.

MSN Toolbar Features and Benefits

The MSN Toolbar is a very useful tool that can be help you with many of the things you do on the Internet every day. The toolbar can be easily downloaded from MSN’s Web site and can be customized to reflect the way you use your time online. Downloading the MSN toolbar will make it appear at the top of your browser every time you open it. Browse through the short list below to get a better idea of some of the many ways the MSN toolbar can help improve your Internet experience.

MSN Toolbar – Find Anything With Ease!

Like most browser toolbars, the MSN toolbar is Web-based, so you can use it no matter where you are, so long as you are in front of a computer with a working Internet connection. A search engine is automatically built into the toolbar so that you don’t have to open up a separate search engine page whenever you want to research something.

Do you know Yahoo? If so, then you are hitting the second most popular destination on the web. Combining search features with a host of services ranging from Internet mail to your own personalized radio station, Yahoo is the busiest web portal.

FEATURES AND BENEFIT

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time AND historical data can be segmented instantly and even visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.

Executive Analytic Dashboards - UPGRADED FEATURE

View key performance metrics within customizable executive dashboards.

Customize your dashboard with the KPIs, time periods, benchmarks, goals and charts that you want to track to monitor your web business. Easily create or edit your dashboard widgets and simply drag them where you want them.

Each widget represents an underlying custom report. Just click most widgets to drill down into the report for more detail.

Each user can create multiple personalized dashboards per website; each dashboard can be used for different needs.

To setup a new dashboard quickly, simply copy any existing dashboard and edit it to meet your new needs.

3) GOOGLE

Designed around the concept of just giving people a search box and a button to click, Google's immense popularity is best shown by how the name has become a synonym for search. By the end of the decade, people will be talking about how they googled their car keys but couldn't find them.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.

Google Gadgets

Desktop gives you one-glance access to personalized and up-to-the-minute information with Google Gadgets -- interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on your desktop or on your iGoogle page to show you new email, weather, photos and personalized news. Other gadgets include the clock, calendar, scratch pad, todo list and many more. You can choose to add the gadget to your desktop, your iGoogle page, or both.

4) FACEBOOK

Facebook swept past MySpace in the past year to become not only the most popular social network in the world, but one of the most popular web destinations. The Facebook development platform played a key role in the expansion of Facebook, allowing it to become more than just a social network by integrating apps and games.

FEATURES AND BENEFIT

Facebook Connect is not just a bright piece that makes your log in breezy. It has transformed the way we interact in on a social network. It not only enable you log in to many sites with your Facebook ID (Open ID), but it also pings back your participation (if you allow it to) to your Facebook profile. Facebook Connect is an honest attempt from Facebook to allow its members access to Facebook user data outside Facebook itself. Connect keeps you connected with your Facebook identity, friends and others at any website. Whether for business, blogging or socializing Facebook Connect could be beneficial for users in various ways. Out of the lot, we sorted out top 5 benefits of Facebook Connect that can be of real help.

5) WINDOWS LIVE

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Multiple blog support: Multiple blog support feature of Windows Live writer makes it very easy to manage your multiple blogs. It not only supports multiple blogs, but also supports multiple platforms.

Retrieve Theme: Unlike other blogging client like scribfire, it also fetches the theme of your blog, and when you create a blog post using Windows Live writer, in the preview section you can have an exact preview of your blog post.