Web Portals When the term "internet" became a household saying, such did words like Excite, Yahoo, and Lycos. These were the so-called portals that directed Internet first-timers to their destinations and virtually walked them through the World Wide Web. They were and still are the fist place visitors go when they start to "surf" the web. Yet these portals are not just your average search engines, they have a lot more to offer like directories, …showed first 75 words of 429 total…

…showed last 75 words of 429 total…angelfire.com. Lycos doesn't have news-clippings like the other 2. Lycos is also geared to more personal-finance than market news. I think Lycos has a more business and less commercial look to it. These three portals are like the NBC, ABC, and CBS of television, they relaying all kinds of news to people, and yet each one has its good aspects and it's bad. You just have to find the one that best suits your needs.