Portal: A web service which offers a wide array of features to entice users to make the portal their “home page” on the web. IGoogle, Yahoo, and MSN are portals.

 

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Hotbot: A popular search portal that is part of the Terra Lycos Network, but operates as a separate search engine in its own right.