Portals on the Internet are web sites that offer many things. You can check weather, get stock quotes, see the news headlines, perhaps view your horoscope.
Portals often offer many other services as well.
You can often create your own home page, with your local weather, specific news and stocks, your sports scores and TV listings, right on the home page. There are many reasons to use a portal. First, it saves time and avoids unnecessary wandering on what seems like an endless Web. And with the customization features, portals can be very powerful. You can create a custom home page and get everything you want in one place.