March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
One way to better understand the portal world is to divide portals into groups based on the purpose of the portal. This section describes several types of portals aimed at different functions for different audiences, and illustrates how portal sites have evolved during the short history of the web.
The first portals on the web were gateways to content that combined search engines with precompiled lists of related links by topic. Many of these portals were general interest and appealed to a broad audience. For instance, Yahoo is one of the most successful web portals. It combines a search engine with personalization (MyYahoo), news, financial information, shopping, and hundreds of other features to aggregate ...
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