Onet.pl is one of the largest

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

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s. It is owned by the

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to

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rankings, as of October 2017, it was the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland. As of December 2016, it is the 6th most visited website in Poland, 311th in the UK, and 375th worldwide.

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holds the majority of Onet since 2012.

Services

Among its services is a Polish

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, the

WIEM Encyklopedia WIEM Encyklopedia (full name in pl, Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna - "Great Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia"; in Polish, ''wiem'' also means 'I know') is a Polish Internet encyclopedia. The first printed edition was released ...

. It also has a licence for

Rebtel Rebtel is a Swedish technological company founded in 2006 by Hjalmar Winbladh and Jonas Lindroth. With its roots in international calling, it sells products and services to migrants and international nomads. Its services include international ...

service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and

Skype Skype () is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, deb ...

service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include

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Usenet Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was ...

access,

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s and

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s. Onet launched a clone of

CNN iReport iReport was CNN's citizen journalism initiative that allowed people from around the globe to contribute pictures and video of breaking news stories. It was similar to Wikinews in that it allowed, and encouraged, ordinary citizens to submit sto ...

called Cynk. This

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project received between 20 and 30 news items a day, according to Michal Bonarowski, Onet's chief editor of publishing.Portal's not dead: the Onet.pl strategy in Window on the Media, October 2008
/ref> Onet had hosted over 800,000 active blogs but in 2018, due to popularity of social media, the service was closed.

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