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Type of site | Web portal |
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| Available in | 1 languages |
List of languages it-IT | |
| Founded | 27 November 1996 |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Area served | Italy |
| Owner | Italiaonline S.r.l. |
| Founder(s) | Matrix S.p.A. |
| Editor | Italiaonline S.r.l. |
| URL | virgilio.it |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Active |
Virgilio was the first web portal in Italy. Born in 1996 as a web search engine and web directory manually edited by its own editors, based on the Yahoo! model, it has gradually evolved as a general portal with different contents, offering users webmail services, a search engine, chats, and a web community.
The editorial style of the early days still leaves an imprint on Virgilio, strongly oriented into providing quality news contents, organized into premium vertical channels. Local contents also have a great relevance, with over 8,100 portals, one for each Italian town. Virgilio remains a reference point for the Italian web, as evidenced by its figures; according to an audiweb TDA November 2015, one out of two Italian surfers visits the portal each month, a total of over 13 million users per month.
See also
Further reading
- Bruno, Nicola; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (April 2012). "Italy: Start-Ups as a Break with the Past?". Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Start-Ups in Western Europe (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. pp. 69–73. ISBN 978-1-907384-08-0. Retrieved 29 June 2023 – via Repubblica.it.
External links
- Official website
(in Italian)