A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site. Web portals often function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Portals present information from diverse sources in a unified way. Aside from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, infotainment and various other features. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. An example of a web portal is Yahoo!.
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What is MetaSeeker toolkit
MetaSeeker toolkit provides a series of tools which semantically describe data schemas of target Web pages, construct Data Schema Specification Files and Data and Clue Extraction Instruction Files, continuously extract information in bulk from the Web, produce and store Data Extraction Result Files with semantic meta data. All above activities are necessary for collecting contents during building up information services.
