Portal

10月19日，美國互聯網巨頭雅虎與金山、當當、天極等12家中國知名公司建立了合作伙伴關系，為它們提供國內最大容量的1G電子郵箱和其他服務。這一舉動似乎違反了雅虎原先作出的不涉足門戶網站市場的承諾，而且和中國本土巨頭新浪、搜狐和網易展開了明刀明槍的競爭。中國日報網站消息：Yahoo! China said yesterday that it had formed an e-mail alliance with Chinese firms like NASDAQ-listed travel service company Ctrip, game websites including Haofang, e-commerce firm Dangdang, IT information portals Chinabyte, Enet and Donews, and software company Kingsoft. The Chinese branch of the US Internet giant will first provide its free e-mail technology to the 12 companies and their users can register such accounts with a capacity of as much as one gigabyte. Yahoo! China spokesman Tu Jianlu said that more than 50 per cent of China's 80 million Internet users use the services of the 12 companies. These users are highly educated in terms of the Internet and are loyal, making them very valuable to his company. Portal的本意是“大門，入口，進入手段”，在IT界主要表示“門戶網站，網絡準入”。業界對portal的定義有很多種分類，比如把portal定義為企業信息門戶、協作門戶、專業門戶、知識門戶等等。相關的術語有：Enterprise Information Portal （企業信息門戶）；virtual portal（虛擬門戶）；vertical portal（針對特定主題的門戶網站）等。 （中國日報網站編）