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- Scooter
- The name of the web spider used by Alta
Vista.
- Search Engines (SEs)
- Search engines are the websites that send out spiders to collect
data from the internet so that sites, information and
content can be found easily using a search query. Examples of such search engines
are Alta Vista, Excite, Google and MSN Search. There are many, many
search engines on the internet.
- SEO
- Abbreviation for "Search
Engine Optimization".
The term for modifying the content and structure of a website so
that it ranks higher in the search queries for particular keywords
on search engines.
- SERP
- Abbreviation for a "Search Engine
Results Page";
what is displayed by search engines after a given query.
- Server Side Include (SSI)
- A file or value of an environmental
variable, that is included in an HTML document, so that information
such as last date modified, file size, author etc. can be automatically
included.
- Shareware:
- Software that can be used in a trial period, usually
around 30 days, to allow users to test them out before purchase.
- Shockwave
- A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc. that enables Web pages to include multimedia objects. To create a
shockwave object, you use Macromedia's multimedia authoring tool called Director, and then compress the object with
a program called Afterburner. You then insert a reference to the "shocked" file in your Web page. To see a Shockwave
object, you need the Shockwave plug-in, a program that integrates seamlessly with your Web browser. The plug-in is
freely available from Macromedia's Web site as either a Netscape Navigator plug-in or an ActiveX control. Shockwave
supports audio, animation, video and even processes user actions such as mouse clicks. It runs on all Windows platforms
as well as the Macintosh.
- Slurp
- The name of the web spider used by Inktomi.
- SPAM
- An unwanted, obtrusive advertising that gets sent
to you via email or is posted on newsgroups or boards is considered
SPAM. Email SPAMMING is against most rules set up by sponsorship
programs and you can be fined for it or lose your ISP access if
complaints are filed against you. To put it short: Don't Spam!
Wanna learn more? Visit spam.abuse.net.
- Spider
- A program that visits and downloads specific information from a webpage.
That information is then sorted by the search engine that the
spider serves to determine keyword relevance and page rank.
- Sponsor Programs
- One of the safest and most common
ways to make money on the web. You promote and provide a specially
coded link to a Paysite from your website. Each time a surfer clicks
on this link and goes to the sponsor's site, you stand a chance
to make some money.
- SQL
- Abbreviation for "Structured Query
Language". Pronounced either "see-kwell" or as separate letters. SQL is
used for requesting information from a database. The original version called SEQUEL (structured
English query language) was designed by an IBM research center in 1974 and 1975. SQL was first introduced as a commercial
database system in 1979 by Oracle Corporation. Historically, SQL has been the favorite query language for database
management systems running on minicomputers and mainframes. Increasingly, however, SQL is being supported by PC database
systems because it supports distributed databases (databases that are spread out over several computer systems). This
enables several users on a local-area network to access the same database simultaneously. Although there are different
dialects of SQL, it is nevertheless the closest thing to a standard query language that currently exists. In 1986, ANSI
approved a rudimentary version of SQL as the official standard, but most versions of SQL since then have included many
extensions to the ANSI standard. In 1991, ANSI updated the standard. The new standard is known as SAG SQL.
- Submission
- In the context of internet related terms, a "submission"
means submitting a site to a search engine or directory.
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