Purpose – Horizontal web portals fill an important place in the operation of the internet and this paper seeks to look at how these portals may become profitable. A portal is simply a gateway, and a web portal can thus be seen as a gateway to content and services on the internet, or on a...

This paper reports on a study that examined the relationship between a small winery cluster and the implementation of a government-sponsored Internet portal—the WinesOfGippsland.com site. Literature relating to industry clusters and Internet portals is examined to identify the beneficial...