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In computing portals have the following meaning:

• Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
• Intranet portal, a gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
• Portals network programming API, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers

A web portal, also known as a links page, presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. Examples of public web portals are AOL, iGoogle, MSNBC, Netvibes, and Yahoo!.^[1]

Read more about portals

• 1 History
• 2 Types of portals
  • 2.1 Horizontal vs. vertical portal (Vortals)
• 3 Vertical Information Portal
• 4 VIP Advertising Model
• 5 References
  • 5.1 Personal portals
  • 5.2 Regional web portals
  • 5.3 Government web portals
  • 5.4 Corporate web portals
  • 5.5 Stock Portals
  • 5.6 Search Portals
  • 5.7 Tender's Portals
  • 5.8 Hosted web portals
  • 5.9 Domain-specific portals
  • 5.10 Engineering Aspects
• 6 Standards
• 7 Emerging standards
• 8 See also
• 9 References

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