Portals: Necessary But Not Self-sufficient
P.J. Jakovljevic - September 26, 2005

Portals: Necessary But Not Self-Sufficient

Previously, portals were merely Web "super-sites" offering a broad array of resources and services, such as (free) e-mail, forums/discussion groups, search engines, on-line shopping malls, news, white and yellow pages directories, and links to other sites. Now they are pervasive in the business world and used at the departmental and corporate levels. The major, general-purpose Web portals are still Yahoo!, Excite, MSN, and America On-Line (AOL) and are the Web equivalent of the original, pre-Web on-line services such as CompuServe and AOL, which initially was only an Internet provider. Now most of these traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience...