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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
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Web Portal - In a message dated Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:25:12 GMT Tony P. writes: Rhode Island is an oddity in that there is the big book that is distributed to Providence rate centers (Ie. those served by PRVDRIWA and PRVDRIBR which amounts to roughly 85% of the numbers in the state!) and covers all numbers in the state, while outlying communities get community directories and in cases have to request the Providence book. Why they don't just distribute one book to the entire state I'll never know.The decision is usually based on maximizing Yellow Pages advertisingrevenue. Last I knew there was the Providence book, the Pawtucket book, one for Wickford, Newport, and Woonsocket.Wes Leatherockwesrock@aol.com
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