Taringa! is a virtual community from Argentina where users can share any kind of information via posts. It was created in January of 2004 and spread since April of 2004 by Fernando Sanz, an argentinean student. In November 2006, it was adquired by Alberto Nakayama, Matías Botbol y Hernán Botbol. With over half million visitor per day and with over 5 million users registered, it becames the 228° webpage with more traffic worldwide. Taringa! has posts, communities, music and games, and it contains 28 categories where users can find homework, art, hobbies, economics, ecology, DIY, humour, news, recipes, videogames, facts and viral media.
This webpage is well known by Latin America websurfers because of his media references, his meme spread (most of them from Latin America like Alto Guiso, El Fua, Ni Mergas, El Canaca, El Ferras and so on), and his big info recopilation.
Taringa owners have another webpage with structure similarities, called Poringa! (+18) that has adult content, such as porn.
