A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails , online forums and search engines , together 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. Variants of portals include mashups and intranet dashboards for executives and managers. The extent to which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may depend on the intended user and the intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content. Very often design emphasis is on a certain "metaphor" for configuring and customizing the presentation of the content (e.g., a dashboard or map) and the chosen implementation framework or code libraries. In addition, the role of the user in an organization may determine which content can be added to the portal or deleted from the portal configuration.
36-551: The All-Russian Mathematical Portal (better known as Math-Net.Ru ) is a web portal that provides extensive access to all aspects of Russian mathematics , including journals, organizations, conferences, articles, videos, libraries, software, and people. The portal is a joint project of the Steklov Mathematical Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences . Access to information in the portal
72-400: A web portal launched by Jeff Gold. Go.com includes content from ABC News , which is owned by Walt Disney Television and is hosted under a .go.com name. Along with Time Warner 's Pathfinder.com , Go.com proved to be an expensive failure for its parent company, as web users largely preferred to use search engines to access content directly, rather than using directories. In 2013, the site
108-509: A blog post, this post could be tagged with their name, title, and the subject of the post. Tagging makes it easier for users of the intranet to find the content they are interested in. This will ultimately cause a ripple effect where users will also be generating ad hoc navigation and information flows. Corporate portals also offer customers and employees self-service opportunities. Search portals aggregate results from several search engines into one page. Users can find search portals specialized in
144-422: A consistent " look and feel " with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different web entities at various URLs . The features available may be restricted by whether access is by an authorized and authenticated user (employee, member) or an anonymous website visitor. The term "portal" emerged in the late 1990s to describe a new genre of website. After
180-426: A more fluid user experience for connecting users spanning multiple domains during a given "session". Cloud portals like Nubifer Cloud Portal show what is possible using Enterprise Mashup and Web Service integration approaches to building cloud portals. A number of portals have come about which are specific to a particular domain, offering access to related companies and services; a prime example of this trend would be
216-494: A number of different sources and may run on a non-standard local Web server. In addition, business portals can be designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that the content be presented on multiple platforms such as personal computers , laptops, tablet computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones and smartphones . Information, news, and updates are examples of content that could be delivered through such
252-612: A part of America Online , the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com . Portal metaphors are widely used by public library sites for borrowers using a login as users and by university intranets for students and for faculty. Vertical markets remain for independent software vendors ( ISVs ) offering management and executive intranet "dashboards" for corporations and government agencies in areas such as governance, risk management, and compliance Web portals are sometimes classified as horizontal or vertical . A horizontal portal
288-443: A point of access to invisible Web cultural content that may not be indexed by standard search engines. Digitised collections can include scans or digital photos of books, artworks, photography, journals, newspapers, maps, diaries and letters and digital files of music, sound recordings, films, and archived websites as well as the descriptive metadata associated with each type of cultural work (e.g., metadata provides information about
324-608: A portal. Personal portals can be related to any specific topic such as providing friends information on a social network or providing links to outside content that may help others beyond the reach of services. Portals are not limited to simply providing links. Outside of business intranet user, very often simpler portals become replaced with richer mashup designs. Within enterprises, early portals were often replaced by much more powerful "dashboard" designs. Some also have relied on newer protocols such as some version of RSS aggregation and may or may not involve some degree of Web harvesting. At
360-482: A product, for example property search portals. Library search portals are also known as discovery interfaces. Property search portals aggregate data about properties for sale or rent by real estate agents or vendors. Notable agent search portals in the UK include Nestoria , Nuroa , OnTheMarket , Rightmove and Zoopla . Notable vendor (seller or landlord) portals in the UK include OpenRent and Gumtree . A tender portal
396-433: A search engine's application programming interface (API) to permit users to search intranet content as opposed to extranet content by restricting which domains may be searched. Apart from this common search engines feature, web portals may offer other services such as e-mail , news, stock quotes, information from databases and even entertainment content. Portals provide a way for enterprises and organizations to provide
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#1732791245781432-481: Is a Web Page at a Website on the World Wide Web or a local HTML home page including JavaScript and perhaps running in a modified Web browser . A personal portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors or its local user, providing a pathway to other content. It may be designed to use distributed applications , different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from
468-428: Is a gateway for government suppliers to bid on providing goods and services. Tender portals allow users to search, modify, submit, review and archive data in order to provide a complete online tendering process. Using online tendering, bidders can do any of the following: Hosted Web portals gained popularity and a number of companies began offering them as a hosted service. The hosted portal market fundamentally changed
504-451: Is an online gallery, index and search engine for news published online. It may cater to specific interest or language or target a wider market. A web portal is a website that provides a broad array of services, such as search engines , e-mail , online shopping , and forums . American web portals included Pathfinder , Excite , Netscape 's Net Center, Go , NBC , MSN , Lycos , Voila, Yahoo! , and Google Search . A personal portal
540-424: Is generally free, except for the full-text sources of certain publications which have elected to make their content available on a fee basis. The website can be read in either Russian or English. As a standard default, it renders on-screen mathematics using MathJax . This article about a mathematical publication is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Web portal A portal may use
576-574: Is now instead hosted on abc7chicago.com. In 2016, some of Disney's sites, including ABC's network and news divisions and Disney's cable networks continued to be hosted on the go.com domain, although a base address was used for branding and simplicity purposes; for example, the website for Freeform redirected to freeform.go.com. As of 2022, the Freeform website is hosted solely on the freeform.com domain name. In August 2016, ESPN.com switched to solely using that domain instead of espn.go.com, tying into
612-599: Is used as a platform to several companies in the same economic sector or to the same type of manufacturers or distributors. A vertical portal (also known as a "vortal") is a specialized entry point to a specific market or industry niche, subject area, or interest. Some vertical portals are known as "vertical information portals" (VIPs). VIPs provide news, editorial content, digital publications, and e-commerce capabilities. In contrast to traditional vertical portals, VIPs also provide dynamic multimedia applications including social networking, video posting, and blogging. A news portal
648-485: The Business Mashups concept of delivering a variety of information, tools, applications and access points through a single mechanism. With the increase in user-generated content (blog posts, comments, photos), disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomists will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data or content. For example, if a vice-president makes
684-657: The Go Network, Infoseek, the Disney Catalog, Disney Online (Disney.com and DisneyStore.com), ABC News Internet Ventures, ESPN Internet Ventures, and Buena Vista Internet Group were merged into the Go.com company; the company was 72% Disney-owned, with the other outstanding ownership in a tracking stock . In October 1999, the Go Guides program, a user-edited directory like DMOZ , was launched. In January 2000, Go.com
720-475: The application server. For early Web browsers permitting HTML frameset and iframe elements, diverse information could be presented without violating the browser same-source security policy (relied upon to prevent a variety of cross-site security breaches). More recent client-side technologies rely on JavaScript frameworks and libraries that rely on more recent Web functionality such as WebSockets and asynchronous callbacks using XMLHttpRequests . The server hosting
756-464: The application server. If the security design and administration does not ensure adequate authentication and authorization, then the portal may inadvertently present vulnerabilities to various types of attacks. Go.com Go.com (also known as The Go Network ) is a portal for Disney content that was created after The Walt Disney Company acquired the search engine Infoseek . Go.com is operated by Disney Interactive 's Disney Online . It began as
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#1732791245781792-539: The author, publisher, etc.). These portals are often based around a specific national or regional groupings of institutions. Notable cultural portals include: Corporate intranets became common during the 1990s. As intranets grew in size and complexity, organization webmasters were faced with increasing content and user management challenges. A consolidated view of company information was judged insufficient; users wanted personalization and customization. Webmasters, if skilled enough, were able to offer some capabilities, but for
828-606: The composition of portals. In many ways they served simply as a tool for publishing information instead of the loftier goals of integrating legacy applications or presenting correlated data from distributed databases. The early hosted portal companies such as Hyperoffice.com or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling in addition to the distribution of corporate data. As hosted Web portals have risen in popularity their feature set has grown to include hosted databases, document management, email, discussion fora and more. Hosted portals automatically personalize
864-490: The content generated from their modules to provide a personalized experience to their users. In this regard they have remained true to the original goals of the earlier corporate Web portals. Emerging new classes of Internet portals called Cloud Portals are showcasing the power of API (Application Programming Interface) rich software systems leveraging SOA ( service-oriented architecture , Web services, and custom data exchange) to accommodate machine to machine interaction creating
900-408: The crucial functions of the application. This application server is in turn connected to database servers, and may be part of a clustered server environment. High-capacity portal configurations may include load balancing strategies. For portals that present application functionality to the user, the portal server is in reality the front piece of a server configuration that includes some connectivity to
936-600: The end of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, many governments had already committed to creating government web portal sites for their citizens. These included primary portals to the governments as well as portals developed for specific branches (e.g., a particular government ministry, department or agency), or for specific sub-audiences (e.g., senior citizens, parents, post-secondary students, etc.). Notable government web portals include: Cultural portals aggregate digitised cultural collections of galleries, libraries (see: library portal ), archives and museums. This type of portal provides
972-463: The go.com tracking stock . Also announced was the closing of Go.com's volunteer-edited directory. With the closing, some volunteers created, or migrated to, offshoot directories including JoeAnt, Goguides.org, and Skaffe.com. In March 2001, Go.com dropped its internal search engine in favor of GoTo.com search results. Despite its announcement, Go.com never ceased operations. Instead, in March 2001,
1008-482: The growth in property portals that give access to services such as estate agents , removal firm , and solicitors that offer conveyancing . Along the same lines, industry-specific news and information portals have appeared, such as the clinical trials-specific portal . The main concept is to present the user with a single Web page that brings together or aggregates content from a number of other systems or servers. The application server or architecture performs most of
1044-444: The interoperability of portlets across different portal platforms. These standards allow portal developers, administrators and consumers to integrate standards-based portals and portlets across a variety of vendor solutions. The concept of content aggregation seems to still gain momentum and portal solution will likely continue to evolve significantly over the next few years. The Gartner Group predicts generation 8 portals to expand on
1080-602: 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 by providing different users with personalized views. Portal solutions can also include workflow management, collaboration between work groups or branches, and policy-managed content publication. Most can allow internal and external access to specific corporate information using secure authentication or single sign-on . JSR168 Standards emerged around 2001. Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standards allow
1116-403: The portal may only be a "pass through" for the user. By use of portlets , application functionality can be presented in any number of portal pages. For the most part, this architecture is transparent to the user. In such a design, security and concurrent user capacity can be important issues, and security designers need to ensure that only authenticated and authorized users can generate requests to
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1152-539: The process of moving the connection of user accounts off from depending on the Go.com domain to a different type of system not dependent solely on one domain. Throughout 2014 and 2015, the ABC Owned Television Stations began to move to only using their on-air domains, mainly for social media considerations. For example, the website ABC 7 in Chicago had been hosted at abclocal.go.com/wls but
1188-422: The proliferation of Web browsers in the late-1990s, many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to attempt to obtain a share of an Internet market. The Web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their Web browsing if it was set as their home page . The content and branding of a portal could change as Internet companies merged or were acquired. Netscape became
1224-405: The site ended its search engine and switched to a search engine provided by goto.com, whose parent, Overture Services, Inc, was eventually purchased by Yahoo! . Go.com terminated its email service on August 31, 2010. In 2013, Disney retired the Go.com logo and branding, turning the domain into a Disney-branded landing page without a search engine. The properties of Disney Interactive then began
1260-548: Was forced to abandon its original stoplight logo because of a complaint of similar-looking logos filed by GoTo.com . Concurrently, Go.com company officials announced it was shifting from a general appeal portal to featuring entertainment content. A court later ruled that Go.com had to pay $ 21.5 million in damages to GoTo.com. However, in January 2001, Disney announced that it would be closing Go.com and its search engine, laying off approximately 400 employees and retiring
1296-457: Was transitioned from a general-interest portal to a simple landing page. On January 9, 1998, Disney registered Go.com. Infoseek and Disney Interactive Media Group joint ventured in developing the Go Network, an internet portal. Go.com was launched on January 15, 1999, as a portal with content from ABCNews.com, ESPN.com and Disney. With Disney's purchase of the remainder of Infoseek in July 1999,
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