I'm seeking information on the number of vertical portals (vortals)on the
WWW. Please provide source and date of information.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 19 Jul 2004 12:39 PDT

Hi Celestial!

I can provide you with the following data:

- A 1999 article that cites a Gartner Group estimate for the number of
vertical portals that would be in operation by 2001.

- An article published in 2000 that cites a Gartner Group estimate for
the percentage that vortals will make up in the e-commerce B2B market
in 2004.

Would the above information be of your interest?

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by celestial-ga on 19 Jul 2004 18:50 PDT

Hi,

It's better than not having information at all, however (as you
proabably guessed) the dot-com bust altered those figures
significantly. Send it over and I'll call it a deal.

Thanks!

Hello again Celestial,

Here is the data that I discovered.

10,000 vortals will be in operation according to the Gartner Group in
the following article.

?By the end of 1998, only a few dozen vertical portals existed. By
2001, according to the Gartner Group, over 10,000 vortals will be in
operation. The most viable of those will be the ones catering to
industry groups, as business-to-business sites and services continue
to develop (and advertise) on the Web in the coming months.?
http://www.realtor.org/WebIntell.nsf/0/182191a04e7e518c86256aa9006f37fe?OpenDocument


August 15 1999
The Portal is dead. Long live the Vortal?

?While the big Portals still handle some 85% of web browsingtraffic
Forrester Research at http://www.forrester.com believesthat less than
20% of total traffic will use them by around2005. That's a massive
medium-term opportunity for publishersin the business-to-business and
consumer markets. The GartnerGroup believes that the number of vortals
will soon pass the10,000 mark .
http://www.onlinepublishingnews.com/htm/n99815oln1.htm


When Is a Web Site a Vortal? 
Vertical portals seek to focus content to attract more visitors  
by Robin Peek

?If Gartner Group's recent report is correct, the newest Web trend,
vertical portals?or "vortals"?could grow from a few hundred to 10,000
over the next couple of years.?
Information Today: Volume 16, Number 8 ? September 1999
http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep99/peek.htm



According to the following article published in 2000, the Gartner
Group estimates that by 2004 vortals will make up 37% of a $7.3
trillion e-commerce B2B market.

?In a study issued last month, Gartner Group estimates that by 2004
vortals will make up 37% of a $7.3 trillion e-commerce B2B market.
Delphi Group, known to have introduced the term vortal, has recently
stated that B2B vortals are "today's most under-valued Internet
players, but will account for $5 trillion in purchases by 2002".
PR Newswire 
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=58778


Search criteria:
Vortals, Vertical portals, Growth, number of

I hope this helps!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Hi Bobbie,

Thanks for this. You did a masterfull job of providing information on
this given the lack of fresh intelligence beyond the dotcom meltdown.
Not sure how useful this will be in my efforts, but it is at least one
reference point.