What You Can Get From Web Portals
Given their chance, some Internet sites would probably keep you from checking out several sites
. You would instead be at a site known as an Internet portal most of the time. A virtual community is what Internet portals try to create so that users feel that they belong.
Described as Super sites, Internet portals desire to cater to your every whim. The sites are so tempting to users primarily because of the free stuff they offer.
E mail accounts are among the free offers of the typical Internet portal. Instant messaging, popular among users, is also offered along with chat rooms and message boards. It wouldn't be complete without the ever famous no cost search engine.
You are influenced into thinking that you are not just visiting a Web site because of these services. I call this the American express approach to Web sites. The term members stuck well with people more than customers or cardholders, as revealed by an American express survey.
This explains the appearance of the slogan Membership has its Privileges. This is the same way portals work. What value can these portal sites give to this sense of community? Money reigns in the situation.
These sites produce free services, and so they must sell online advertising space in order to earn income. Since you will feel more like a member and will enjoy more free services, then there will be a tendency for you to invest more of your online time at that site. The site can opt to increase its advertising charge.
Advertisements will doubtless be found at every portal you go to. Netscape was one of the first to put the portal concept into action.
Instead of starting from scratch, it tied up with other Internet companies in offering free services. The netcenter can provide e mail because of the net address e mail service of USA.net.
Business related discussion groups, a career center, and an online auto buying area are just some of the many services that netcenter offers. Web surfers almost always use Internet search engines. We don't wonder now why many of these search engines have adopted the portal concept.
Adequate portal features, free e mail services, and search facilities are what AltaVista has to offer. There's a page on which you can type in text and have it translated from English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish or vice versa.
One of my favorite sites on the Web, Yahoo has made waves as both a search tool and a portal site. Searching is for free, so is an e mail account. My yahoo, a personal yahoo account for yourself, can be made.
An online jave version as well as a downloadable version of the Yahoo pager can now be used. In order to get Yahoo as your Internet service provider, you have to sign up.
Because of eGrocer, you can buy your groceries online. The excite product finder adds a new dimension to your online shopping experience.
Sites and prices are listed at the touch of a button. The search engine is also at your disposal.
The same features are available at lycos. Lycos may be a worthwhile site, but it already offers the same as any portal site. The unique thing about lycos is that it offers free home pages, something not common to other portal sites.
by: Jack Tench
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