What does a portal mean? What's the difference between a portal website and an ordinary website?

Portal refers to a comprehensive Internet information resource and an application system that provides related information services. Portal sites are classified as follows:

Search engine portal website

The main function of such websites is to provide powerful search engines and other various network services, which is relatively rare in China.

Comprehensive portal website: This kind of website mainly focuses on news information and entertainment information.

The website is a comprehensive website focusing on news, supply and demand, products, exhibitions, industry navigation and recruitment.

Local life portal

This kind of website is the most popular at present, which is mainly based on local information, generally including: local information, online shopping in the same city, classified information, making friends, job hunting, group buying and collecting, word-of-mouth merchants, online navigation, living community and other channels. The network also includes electronic atlas, calendar, map channel, music box, online movies, coupons, discount information, travel information, hotel information and other very practical functions.

personal portal

A personal portal is a website, which usually provides personalized functions and provides visitors with access to other content. It aims to provide services from many different sources using different numbers and types of distributed applications, middleware and hardware. In addition, the enterprise portal is designed for entertainment and collaboration in the workplace. Further business-driven requirements, portal content can work on multiple platforms, such as personal computers, personal digital assistants (PDA) and mobile phones/cellphones.