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Portal

an entry point to the World Wide Web usually providing services such as
email, search engines, news, weather, stock quotes, chat and message forums,
and a number of additional benefits designed to attract users to the site.
Such Websites encourage users to set the site as their Homepage. Many of the
top search engines, in an effort it increase site traffic, have endeavored to be-come
all-purpose cyber-utilities, providing a user with many of the services the
World Wide Web has to offer. Yahoo and MSN are common portals.