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A (usually web-based) system for searching the information available on the Web. Some search engines work by automatically searching the contents of other systems and creating a database of the results. Other search engines contains only material manually approved for inclusion in a database, and some combine the two approaches.
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"The engineering of a web page or site resulting in the optimum level of visibility for the most relevant words or phases within search engines results."
Many companies offer such services, promising for example a top 3 ranking for a particular term. The catch is the terms they suggest are obscure and/or regionalized. The term may appear at No.1, but no one is searching on it. How often a term appears in a search engine search result, is more important than how high.
We design with search engine optimization as a primary consideration, however it is up to the site owner to produce quality content to which such techniques can be applied.
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A secure payment page is a page where the card information is submitted for processing in a secure/safe environment. A secure page is indicated by the appearance of a padlock in the bottom right hand side of your computer screen. The URL of a secure page is also identified by the beginning of the code which is https://
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A chunk of information that is used to establish a secure connection between your computer and the server you are contacting, so that nobody can intercept the information being exchanged.
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A machine that serves other clients on a network, and also used to describe a software a package that provides a specific kind of service such as; web server, mail server, and ftp server.
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An inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list or other networked communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium (which it is not) by sending the same message to a large number of people who didn't ask for it.
The term comes from a famous Monty Python skit which featured the word spam repeated over and over.
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A program that automatically fetches Web pages. Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web. Another term for these programs is web crawler.
Because most Web pages contain links to other pages, a spider can start almost anywhere. As soon as it sees a link to another page, it goes off and fetches it.
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A somewhat vague term generally referring to software that is secretly installed on a users computer and that monitors use of the computer in some way without the users' knowledge or consent.
Most spyware tries to get the user to view advertising and/or particular web pages . Some spyware also sends information about the user to another machine over the Internet. Often, spyware is responsible for receiving unsolicited junk e-mail.
Spyware is usually installed without a users' knowledge as part of the installation of other software, especially software such as music sharing software.
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Secure Socket Layer is a protocol designed by Netscape Communications to enable encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet.
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