Nominated by Webby Awards as one of the five best news Web sites, along with BBC News, National Geographic, and The Smoking Gun, Al Jazeera was also voted by brandchannel .com readers as the fifth most influential global brand, behind Apple, Google, Ikea, and Star-bucks. In 2011, Salon.com noted Al Jazeera's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian protests as superior to that of the American news media, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also stated that the network's news coverage was more informative and less opinion-driven than American journalism.