Portal 
A Portal is a web site that acts as a starting point for Internet users on the World Wide Web to find web sites and information on the subjects they are interested in. A web portal does this by using search results from either their own search database or another leading search database and by also having a directory of web site. They are also numerous other ways web portals provide information and navigation for web users. A prime example of a web portal is Yahoo.
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