1. Portal
A web portal specially designed web site 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)
Examples of early public web portals were AOL, Excite, Netvibes, iGoogle, MSN, Naver, Lycos, Indiatimes, Rediff, and Yahoo!

2. Types of web portals
1. Personal portals
A personal portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors or its local user, providing a pathway to other content
2. Government web portals
Government committed to creating portal sites for their citizens. These included primary portals to the governments as well as portals developed for specific audiences. Examples of government web portals include: · india.gov.in for India.
3. Cultural portals
Cultural portal aggregate digitised cultural collections of galleries, libraries (see: library portal), archives and museums.
4. Corporate web portals
A consolidated view of company information presented