THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEB PORTALS

A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way.

Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as , news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment.

Examples of international public web portals are AOL, Excite, iGoogle, MSN, Netvibes, and Yahoo!

Examples of Romanian public web portals are Roportal, Kappa, Clopoțel, Acasa, SEI!

In the late 1990s the web portal was a hot commodity. After the proliferation of web browsers in the late 1990s many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to have a piece of the Internet market. The web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their web browser.

Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com, IBM and others launched Prodigy, became a part of AT&T during the late 1990s. Lycos was said to be a good target for other media companies such as CBS.

The portal craze, with old media companies racing to outbid each other for Internet properties, died down with the dot-com bust in 2000 and Disney pulled the plug on Go.com, Excite went bankrupt, and its remains were sold to iWon.com. Some portal sites such as Yahoo! and those others first listed in this article remain active.

TYPES OF WEB PORTAL Personal portals A personal portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content.. In addition, business portals are designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces.. Information, news, and updates are examples of content that would be delivered through such a portal.

News portals 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 counter parts. TYPES OF WEB PORTAL

Government web portals At the end of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, many governments had already committed to creating portal sites for their citizens. These included primary portals to the Governments as well as portals developed for specific audiences. TYPES OF WEB PORTAL

Examples of Government web portals: for Australia. for United States for citizens with disabilities in the United States for India.

Corporate web portals Corporate intranets became common during the 1990s. As intranets grew in size and complexity, webmasters were faced with increasing content and user management challenges. A consolidated view of company information was judged insufficient; users wanted personalization and customization. TYPES OF WEB PORTAL

Corporate web portals Webmasters, if skilled enough, were able to offer some capabilities, but for the most part ended up driving users away from using the intranet. Many companies began to offer tools to help webmasters manage their data, applications and information more easily, and through personalized views. TYPES OF WEB PORTAL

Corporate web portals Portal solutions can also include workflow management, collaboration between work groups, and policy-managed content publication. Most can allow internal and external access to specific corporate information using secure authentication or single sign-on. TYPES OF WEB PORTAL

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