KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Search engine behemoth Google has been dethroned by video-focused social networking service TikTok as the most popular domain in 2021.

American technology-security company Cloudflare Inc in its "2021 Year in Review for Internet traffic" rankings said that in 2020, TikTok was ranked No. 7, while Google came in at No. 1.

This year, TikTok came in first, followed by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.

Cloudflare said Internet traffic continued to grow (at least so far and with some "help" from the Covid-19 pandemic), and Internet applications, be they websites, Internet of things (ToT) devices or mobile apps, continued to evolve throughout the year, depending on if they attracted human beings.

Another trend was that Netflix surpassed Amazon in December 2020, especially around the Christmas week.

Cloudflare said on some days around Christmas 2020, Netflix was even higher than Apple in rankings at No. 4. That was the case on Dec 23, 25 and from Dec 29 to Jan 2, 2021.