"In addition to the true general portals, there are thousands of specialty, or 'vertical,' portals, such as Time Warner's impending Entertaindom.com site and BET.com for African Americans, aimed at a single topic or audience. There are corporate portals, too, such as the internal Web sites that Yahoo said last week it and Hewlett-Packard Co. would customize and sell to big companies."
—Leslie Walker, "Some Light Through the Portal," The Washington Post, August 19, 1999