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Internet service provider (company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. In addition to providing access to the Internet, ISPs may also provide software packages (such as browsers), e-mail accounts, and a personal Web site or home page. ISPs can host Web sites for businesses and can also build the Web sites themselves. ISPs are all connected to each other through network access points, public network facilities on the Internet backbone. Britannica); Internet portal (In an effort to reposition itself, AOL no longer sought to be the premier provider of dial-up service and instead tried to become a free advertising-supported Internet portal like Yahoo (Yahoo! Inc.) and Google. Britannica Alexander Demidov); on-line service provider (An Internet service provider (ISP) having a large amount of specially developed content available to subscribers. The distinction between an ISP and an OSP is blurred as the distinction depends on the amount of premium content (only available to customers) offered as part of the service. OB&M Alexander Demidov); web company (Cameron tells web companies to block child sexual abuse searches: Prime minister warns of legislation if Google and other providers fail to blacklist "sick and malevolent" terms. TG Alexander Demidov); e-commerce business (There is an argument that the translation "dotcom company" (and its variants) is inherently flawed when applied to Russian entities, because they generally trade in the .ru (not .com) domain. "Online retailer" is the most prevalent term in English, but you have to be 100% sure the company in question is in fact a retailer. D Cassidy); web portal (A web portal is most often one specially-designed Web page at a website which brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display. Variants of portals include Mashup (web application hybrid) and intranet "dashboards" for executives and managers. The extent to which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may be more or less depending on the intended user and the intended purpose as well as the diversity of the content. ... Examples of early public web portals were AOL, Excite, Netvibes, iGoogle, MSN, Naver, Indiatimes, Rediff, Sify and Yahoo!. 3 Types of web portals 3.1 Personal portals 3.2 News portals 3.3 Government web portals 3.4 Cultural portals 3.5 Corporate web portals 3.6 Stock portals 3.7 Search portals 3.8 Tender's portals 3.9 Hosted web portals 3.10 Domain-specific portals. WK Alexander Demidov) |
