Sep
21
It’s been a little while since I did a NetLingo Word of the Day, but here’s the latest one: A Web site that serves as a starting point to other destinations or activities on the Web. Initially thought of as a home base with links to other sites in the same subject area, portals now attempt to provide all of a user’s Internet needs, in one location. Pioneered by Yahoo!, portals aggregate other people’s content. MSN and AOL are also popular Web portals. For example, portals commonly provide