Thursday, March 21, 2013
A web portal is a website that
brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually,
each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying
information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display.
Apart from the standard search
engines feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock
prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for
enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and
procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have
been different entities altogether. The traditional media rooms all around the world
are fast adapting to the new age technologies. This marks the beginning of news
portals by media houses across the globe. This new media channels give them the
opportunity to reach the viewers in a shorter span of time than their print
media counterparts.
Examples of public web portals
are AOL, Excite, iGoogle, MSN, Naver, Indiatimes, Rediff and Yahoo!.
Types of web portals
Personal portals
News portals
Government web portals
Cultural portals
Family web Portal
Family web Portal
Corporate web portals
Stock portals
Search portals
Tender's portals
Hosted web portals
Domain-specific portals
