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An example of a portal site on the Web, which presents a variety of ways to make use of the Internet.

Web site designed to be used as a start-up site for browsing sessions and to provide a gateway to the rest of the Web. To increase their attractiveness, portals expanded rapidly in the late 1990s to offer a wide variety of services such as personalized start-up pages, free e-mail, directories, customized news and weather reports, online calendars, games, and free Web space. The first portals were online services such as America Online (AOL), which added gateways to the Internet. Others have come from different areas: Yahoo! started as a hierarchical guide to Web sites, Excite as a search engine, and Netscape's Netcenter as the default home page for users of Netscape's Web browser. CNet's Snap! was the first Web site designed to act as a portal. Traditional portals are under threat from a number of areas. Free ISPs are capturing customers from portals, educated Web users choose to go straight to niche sites that interest them, and satellite and cable companies offer interactive television with Internet access channelled through their own Web sites.



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But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-hush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I had believed in the best parlour as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
But all the estuaries of great rivers have their fascination, the attractiveness of an open portal.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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