Almost everyone thinks he knows what a website is and in a way he is correct. But when people start to talk about a Webportal in the same breath as a website, this is where they go wrong. Webportal is indeed a type of website, but it is much more in content and services that you will better appreciate after reading this article on Webportal and Website.
A website of a company is a collection of all the facts and information about the company in different pages that are included or contained under a domain name. A website contains text, images and videos. A portal is defined in the dictionary as a gateway or an entry point to a grand entrance. Thus a Webportal, in addition to being a website, also acts as a gateway to the internet. For example www.google.com is a website but it also acts as a portal as it gets to you an array of web services. There are many pages that go into making it a website that is also a Webportal as you can use it as a launch pad to millions of other web pages, go shopping, play games, read your email, or talk to your friends through its messenger called Gtalk and so on. A Webportal is not just a great source of information; it allows data retrieval from divergent sources.
While a Webportal find information for the users, they themselves have to search for it on a particular website. So whereas Yahoo.com or Google.com are considered as webportals, CNBC.com or CNN.com or BBC.com are considered as websites. You can search for information on a website but it is limited while a Webportal itself searches and presents all the information for the users.
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In brief: Website vs Webportal • A Webportal is also a type of website but it differs in content and services from a typical website that provides only specialized information • A Webportal is a launch pad to a host of web based services such as email, shopping, gaming, news, weather and so on whereas a website is concerned with providing information about a company only.
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