1.   Construction Plus is a series of community-focused web portals initially targeting architects, civil engineers and construction contractors.

2.   Web portal Yahoo Inc. is facing criticism for changing its marketing policy and opting users into an array of promotional e-mails, postal mailings and telephone calls.

3.   Web portal Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, has been hit hard by the decline in online advertising, its primary source of revenue.

4.   Web portals and auction sites applaud the educational efforts.

5.   Web portals such as America Online and Yahoo are expected to offer online bill-payment under their brands and heavily promote it to their millions of users.

6.   Web portals are defined as sites that offer search content and tools such as Yahoo, Lycos and Excite.

7.   Web portal Yahoo! and telecommunications company Motorola are also expected to report their earnings Tuesday after the close of regular trading.