The Internet Revolution started with Wannabe Netpreneures launching fun sites targeting the young user. The content was primarily entertainment oriented and there was little for serious business there. The opportunity for serious content was soon spotted by some and then started the mad rush of E-Portals. These Internet sites promised to port the surfers to the information destination of their choice. Alas, even this sea of information proved too big to surf and most of the queries still fail to give pinpointed information to the user. Now, E-Vortals promise nirvana to serious business users and companies. Vortals are Vertical Portals giving highly concentrated, business specific information to target groups with similar interest. So the business user does not have to navigate through the jungle of useless data before finding the needed information. The vortals do the sorting and categorizing for him.

Chemicalhouse.com, by Galaxy Weblinks Ltd, promises to be the E-Vortal of choice for the chemical industry. The Internet Site provides excellently categorized information with over 100 categories and sub categories of chemicals. Promoted by hardcore chemical industrialists, the site shows a keen understanding of chemical business. The site is designed for easy usability and navigation targeted at the chemical businessmen who may not be very net savvy. 'The interface has been designed after elaborate consultation with the chemical industrialist and traders across the industry so that they are comfortable in using our services. We are sharply focussed on providing better e-trading platform to the chemical community and are investing heavily in making the site more and more useful', tells Mr. Anand Damani, Managing Director of Galaxy Weblinks Ltd.

The site provides the unique facility for companies, both manufacturing and trading, to host their web-pages on its server. Setting-up your web-page on this site is easy and fast like a snap. So, even smaller companies can have their net-presence in a matter of minutes now. The service is being offered free till July 31st, 2000. Anyone can visit the site at www.chemicalhouse.com and set-up their inquiry for either selling or buying the chemical. The inquiry is immediately e-mailed to the registered companies and those interested, contact the party directly. Mr. Damani stresses the fact that the site only provides a promotional medium for information dissemination and is not a brokerage site.

The company has two offices in India, at Mumbai and Indore and has already opened its offices in Canada and Poland. The site has been received well in International Markets with companies from Japan, Canada, Poland, The US, etc. logging on frequently. Mr. Damani is confident of the usefulness of the site for the chemical trade and asserts that within a few months the site will change the ways the trade communicates, worldwide. Well, the change is already happening.