Virgilio was the first web portal in Italy. Started 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.

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Virgilio

Type of site	Web portal
Available in	1 languages
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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

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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.

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• 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.

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