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n.

An internal Web site on a corporate network that offers content and services aimed at the company's employees.

"In addition to the true general portals, there are thousands of specialty, or 'vertical,' portals, such as Time Warner's impending Entertaindom.com site and BET.com for African Americans, aimed at a single topic or audience. There are corporate portals, too, such as the internal Web sites that Yahoo said last week it and Hewlett-Packard Co. would customize and sell to big companies."

— Leslie Walker, "Some Light Through the Portal," The Washington Post, August 19, 1999