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A PORTAL on the Internet is what its name implies - an entry point to information available on the Internet. The kind of information which each portal directs the user to depends on what kind of gateway it is. The early portals offered an array of resources such as news. stock quotes, free home pages, search facilities, travel information classified advertisements and free e-mail. But now increasingly there are more and more portals directed to specific business needs.