The portal page is an obstacle, not a help. Some companies just don't belong in the portal business. Expanding to portal status only defocuses what their sites are really about. There are other kinds of portals, and in some cases, they do make more sense than the Netscape example. But even so, there's a problem.
Search engines are supposedly neutral ways of finding information on the Web.
To me, it seems in many cases that portal mania has replaced common sense. Some companies just don't belong in the portal business. Expanding to portal status only defocuses what their sites are really about. Sometimes with websites, more is less. Join the LangaLetter threads .