PORTALS AND SERACH ENGINES

In Portals you can do search itself whereas website is a combination of web pages which provide information. Eg- If Madonna makes a website about herself, she will add about her likes and dislikes and other personal things. But if i make a website of Madona then i would not add whatever is present in her website rather i will add something different about Madona and i will provide a link to her website so that anyone can easily access through my website.

When you open yahoo.com your first thing comes to your mind is email. Yahoo is a portal whichprovide various links. Yahoo started as email service and Google started as search engine.

Yahoo search engine is secondary thing and Google mail is secondary. Now Gmail has got many other features in it like news, orkut, group etc. On google.com you will only find search engine. On yahoo.com you will find many features. i Google provide you the feature of customization. Yahoo is offering also offering the page and Google is also offering you the page but the priority of google remains the search. We come to Google .com for search only. But Yahoo.com provide number of features like games news etc. Another website get open in within yahoo.

In portal many websites are parked. Yahoo Games is a portal but Miniclips.com is a website. If someone comes to yahoo.com then he/she should not get out of yahoo for anything. Yahoo provides evrything the user wants. This is called WALL GARDEN. Anything of indiviual interest can be found in a portal. Any website caters to the single interst. For eg miniclip.com is focused only on games. Portal caters multiple interest for multiple people. Portal is a place where no. of websites stay.

SUKET KUMAR SINGH