Variant of NAICS 2002 - Goods and Services

• 41-91 - Services
• 51 - Information and Cultural Industries
• 518 - Internet Service Providers, Web Search Portals, and Data Processing Services
• 5181 - Internet Service Providers, Web Search Portals
• 51811 - Internet Service Providers, Web Search Portals

518112 - Web Search Portals^US

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating web search portals. Establishments in this industry operate web sites that use a search engine to generate and maintain extensive databases of Internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format. Web search portals often provide additional Internet services, such as e-mail, connections to other web sites, auctions, news, and other limited content, and serve as a home base for Internet users.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • offering direct on-line access to information that they publish or compile (See 511 Publishing Industries (except Internet))
  • publishing databases (See 51114 Directory and Mailing List Publishers)
  • publishing or broadcasting exclusively on the Internet (See 516 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting)
  • offering limited Internet connectivity at establishments usually known as Internet cafés and a combination of other services such as facsimile services, training, rental of on-site personal computers for word processing, games roomsor food services (see 56143 Business Service Centres or 722 Food Services and Drinking Places)
  • developing databases for the purpose of credit reporting (See 56145 Credit Bureaus)

• Example Activities:

  • Web search portals