A personal home page on the Web that is customized by the user. Typically associated with a search engine and displaying selected information such as news, weather and stock quotes, if the portal publisher offers e-mail, IM or other services, direct links to those systems are also provided.
iGoogle, My Yahoo!, myAOL, My MSN and Windows Live are examples of personalized home pages, all of which are attempts at making their page the one users always see first when they launch their Web browsers. See gadget, widget, portal and adaptive Web site.
iGoogle, My Yahoo!, myAOL, My MSN and Windows Live are examples of personalized home pages, all of which are attempts at making their page the one users always see first when they launch their Web browsers. See gadget, widget, portal and adaptive Web site.
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