Some innovative portals are now utilizing user-created content (UCC) through community-
based search (CBS). Surveys observe that most UCC is actually copied from many …

With the advent of the community-based search, the role of the search portal is evolving.
Formerly a gateway, the portal is now becoming a destination. A community-based search …

Although the Web has grown to several billion pages over the past few years, just a few of
the Web sites get most of the visits. Such sites, called portals, attract visitors and advertisers …

In this paper, we investigate three complementary measures of portal use: frequency of use,
length of visits and repeat use. To examine these three measures of use, we first classify the …

This study combines two major theories in communication research, Palmgreen and
Rayburn's Expectancy-Value approach to media gratifications (1985) and Eagly and …

Over the past few years the Web has grown to several hundred million pages, while just a
few of them get most of the visits. Such sites, called portals, attract visitors, advertisers and …

Internet portals serve as platforms for coordinating advertisements, content, and user
markets. We model portal structure with South Korean market data to explain network effects …

Rapid technological developments and deregulation of the telecommunications industry
have changed the way in which content providers distribute and price their goods and …

This study examined multimedia user-created content (UCC) market competition between
portals and multimedia content sites in Korea through a Web-based survey using a sample …

The Internet, since its inception, has been imagined as a technology that enables
information to overcome barriers of language and geography. As a handful of social media …