World Wide Web Consortium - Page Rank 10 in Google Index

Everybody who knows about world wide web might have been knowing about www.w3.org - listed in one of the page rank 10 of google.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

They say that there mission is:

To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

It mainly deals with the creation of web standards and

guidelines Since 1993 w3c has published more than 110 such standards, called W3C Recommendations। W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web। In order for the Web to reach its full potential, the most fundamental Web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together. W3C refers to this goal as “Web interoperability.” By publishing open (non-proprietary) standards for Web languages and protocols, W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation.

Tim Berners-Lee , the director and inventor of world wide web and others created W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies. Mr. Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has served as the W3C Director since W3C was founded, in 1994.

It is a huge bundle of resources for web masters also. So try to check the site atleast once.

Website : http://www.w3.org