Sanook.com is a Thai-language web portal and news website based in Thailand. It is among the country's most visited websites and one of the longest in operation, having been launched in 1998. The website is operated by Tencent (Thailand) Co., Ltd., previously known as Mweb (Thailand) from 1998 to 2007, and Sanook Online until 2016, when it was renamed to reflect its acquisition by China-based parent Tencent. Sanook.com was founded in 1998 by Thai internet entrepreneur Poramate Minsiri. Back then, the Thai World Wide Web was still in its infancy, and Sanook, which started as a web directory, developed into the country's first major web portal and quickly became one of its top visited sites. Poramate experimented and added features according to social trends; one example was its collection of suggestions for cute and funny pager messages. The site's name, from the Thai word meaning "fun", as well as its original logo (stylized as SANOOK!), were inspired by Yahoo!'s. More information...
According to PR-model, sanook.com is ranked 1,931st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 6th in Thai Wikipedia.
The website is placed before almaany.com and after usni.org in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
