Libero (web portal)
Italian web portal (established 1994) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libero (English: "Free") is an Italian web portal owned by Italiaonline [it] and founded by Infostrada in 1994 as a website to assist users in browsing the Internet, which at the time still had a fee, and in configuring an e-mail. Alongside Virgilio.it, a web portal created in 1996, and the two most widely read newspapers, Corriere della Sera and la Repubblica, Libero is a household name within Italian online news.[1] Alongside Virgilio, Libero was the local-web complementation for large international sites like Google and Facebook among websites attracting the most online traffic in Italy.[2]
Type of site | Web portal |
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Available in | 1 languages |
List of languages it-IT | |
Founded | 1994 |
Country of origin | Italy |
Area served | Italy |
Owner | Italiaonline [it] S.r.l. |
Founder(s) | Infostrada S.p.A. |
URL | libero |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 1994 |
Current status | Active |
In May 2007, Libero was among the top 30 brand of the month in Italy, with over 10.5 million unique visitors, ahead of Yahoo!, Alice ADSL [it], eBay, the Italian Wikipedia, and Microsoft, and behind only Google and MSN/Windows Live.[3] By June 2010, it was listed 8th among the top ten websites generting the most unique users in Italy at over 13 million, behind Google, Facebook, YouTube, MSN/Windows Live/Microsoft Bing, Virgilio, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, and ahead of Wikipedia and Blogger. Libero News was listed 4th among the top 10 news websites at over 5 million uniques visitors, behind la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, and TGcom, and ahead of La Stampa (La Stampa.it), Quotidiano.net, Virgilio Notizie, Google News, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Lettera43 [it], Il Post, and Linkiesta (Linkiesta.it).[4]