Portal
A Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, chat rooms and on-line shopping. The first Web portals were online services, such as AOL, that provided access to the Web, but by now most of the traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience, such as Yahoo!, Lycos and Excite.
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