>Yahoo is making a new portal Yahoo already has a portal - that's what their homepage is and it's hugely popular. The nature of a portal though, is to transpo

>Yahoo is making a new portal Yahoo already has a portal - that's what their homepage is and it's hugely popular. The nature of a portal though, is to transport the user somewhere - they are taking all their huge number of pageviews and sending those users on to somewhere else. Yahoo's acquisitions seem to be the opposite of making a portal - they're bringing more and more of the content onboard, trying to turn their portal into a destination. or rather, buying up enough actual destinations that the portal can promote their own products instead of lucky third parties.