Portal
<World-Wide Web> A
web site that aims to be an entry point to the
World-Wide Web, typically offering a
search engine and/or links to useful pages, and possibly news or other services.
These services are usually provided for free in the hope that users will make the site their default
home page or at least visit it often.
Popular examples are
Yahoo and
MSN.
Most portals on the
Internet exist to generate advertising income for their owners, others may be focused on a specific group of users and may be part of an
intranet or
extranet.
Some may just concentrate on one particular subject, say technology or medicine, and are known as a vertical portals.
