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Web portal. A portal may use a search engine API to permit users to search intranet content as opposed to extranet content by restricting which domains may be searched.

Web portal

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 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 site visitor.

Examples of early public web portals were AOL, Excite, Netvibes, iGoogle, MSN, Naver, Indiatimes, Rediff, Sify and Yahoo!. See for example, the "My Yahoo! "

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XMarks Portals. Knowledgeorganization. Magaziners.