Onet.pl

Onet.pl is one of the largest Polish web portals. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of October 2017, it was the 45th most popular website worldwide[2] and the 3rd most popular site in Poland.[3] As of December 2016, it is the 6th most visited website in Poland, 311th in the UK, and 375th worldwide.[4]

Onet.pl
Type of site
Web portal
FoundedJune 2, 1996 (1996-06-02)
OwnerAxel Springer SE and Ringier
Created byOddział Internet
URLonet.pl 20
Commercialyes
Onet.pl
Alexa rank 386 (October 2017)[1]
This article is about the internet portal. For the O*NET occupational database, see Occupational Information Network.

Ringier Axel Springer Media AG holds the majority of Onet since 2012.[5]

Services

Among its services is one of Polish online encyclopedias, the WIEM Encyklopedia. It also has a licence for Rebtel service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and Skype service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include email, web hosting, Usenet access, web forums and online chats.

Onet launched a clone of CNN iReport called Cynk. This citizen journalism project received between 20 and 30 news items a day, according to Michal Bonarowski, Onet's chief editor of publishing.[6]

Onet had hosted over 800,000 active blogs but in 2018 due to popularity of social media, the service was closed.[7]

gollark: I see.
gollark: It might be an interesting project to use AI magic™ to generate fake room panomarae and faces and feed them to the software.
gollark: I mean, it's not like many people are in a position to go "hmm, I disagree with this software, I'll just not do the exam/test/etc".
gollark: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-vendor-proctorio-files-slapp-lawsuit-silence-critic
gollark: Some of the other things apparently detect face and eye movemenets which is, er, bad.

References
  1. "Onet.pl Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  2. Alexa Web Search - Top 500 Accessed 2007-12-12
  3. Alexa Top Sites Poland. Accessed 2007-12-12.
  4. "onet.pl Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". www.alexa.com.
  5. "Ringier Axel Springer Media AG and TVN S.A. enter into an agreement regarding the acquisition of 75 percent of the shares in leading Polish online portal Onet.pl". Axel Springer SE. June 4, 2012.
  6. Portal's not dead: the Onet.pl strategy in Window on the Media, October 2008
  7. "Onet zamyka Blog.pl. „Efekt rosnącej roli mediów społecznościowych"". www.wirtualnemedia.pl.


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