Define - Portal

BY  MYTHOS

WEB PORTAL - A term coined to describe the large search engine sites, such as Yahoo! and Lycos, that have branched off to offer a wide variety of services. The idea is that a Web user would peer at the Web by using only one website: the portal. For example, you go to a portal to do searches, get stock quotes, buy things, etc. It would be your everything site. Each portal site wants to offer one of each type of service so that a user never has to leave the site. (From www.monster-isp.com Web Portal Definition)

We use this term a bit less dramtically. On our site the term Portal is defined as: Sites setup to pass its viewers off to other web locations to perform sought after tasks.