The data illustrates the market value of the top internet companies worldwide as of May 2018. That year, e-commerce company Amazon's market value was 783 billion USD. Search market leader Google had a market value of 739 billion USD.
The end of the 1990 in the U.S. saw the rise of a great number of internet companies, also called online companies or a variety of the name “dot com,” where the “.com” domain is derived from the word commercial. At the time, such startups were merely riding the wave of early internet business, but had little capital and perhaps one good idea.
