A web portal or links page is a web site that function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. A portal 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

Types of web portals:

• Personal portals
• News portals
• Government web portals
• Corporate web portals
• Stock portals
• Search portals
• Tender's portals
• Hosted web portals
• Domain-specific portals