Google still tops

Google is still the top-rated brand, according to Web survey

Brandchannel.com runs an annual reader survey to identify the five top brands in the world.

Four of the five are Web-related, which makes sense, since all the votes were done via Web users logging onto the BrandChannel site.

The top five global brands in order are: Google, Apple, YouTube, Wikipedia and Starbucks.

Last year’s list was Google, Apple, Skype, Starbucks and IKEA.

The year before, the list was: Apple, Google, IKEA, Starbucks and Al-Jazeera.