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Origin of net, evolution of portals.

the road map of internet so-far. How did it happen?

         

dbadon

12:43 pm on May 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello,

1] Where do I find the best and authentic source of "How the websites became portals?" .

2] Internet is all abt economics. The biggest economy is of USA and so is the internet economy largely driven from USA. I have observed that what USA implements today , takes around a decade to filter down to the third world country, specifically India& China.

E-mails came to India around 1996, in a big way and right now , its 10 years but the penetration is yet only .0001% of the total population . This is largely due to infrastructure problems ,etc.

So is it possible to check-out what happened in US in 1995/6 , from webmasters angle and implement the same ideas with local customization?

Would that kind of framework work?

For example, I observed internet banking in USA started early but in india , except for few large banks , we are still offline. Its now catching up, but only in the big cities.

Big cities where there is a large concentration of highly educated IT-savvy population is heavily into internet and few have even hopped onto the ad-sense bandwagon.

3] So, is it possible to replicate what happens in USA with local customizing?

4] If yes, then here is the big question for YOU ALL . WOULD YOU LIKE TO CREATE A BRANCH HERE IN INDIA FOR YOUR WEBSITES/PORTALS?

5] TAKING IT FURTHUR, HAS ANYBODY DONE THIS KIND OF THING? i.e. built website, content, earned revenues thru adsense,etc and then taken it furthur outside their geography & earned profits?

I am aware that people are ripping websites [from what I read from this forum ], so wouldnt it be better to put up a local "branch" in the country , do a legal tie-up, ask local guy to bring traffic, share revenues, spread the reach?

Iam aware of the bigger players like monster, yahoo, msn, google, etc having their india/china presence but dont know if the individual guys are doing it?

I appologize if Iam saying too many things in a single post. Please bear.

Regards,
DBADON