The world of SEO and Internet Marketing has gained considerable popularity in the last few years, and has its own language and dictionary of terms. We have compiled a list of some of the most used words in Search Engine Optimization and other Internet related terms to help you.
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| 1. | Game BoyNintendo Corporation's popular battery-powered, portable handheld gaming system first introduced in 1990 and updated frequently. Games are supplied on cartridges. The latest Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, features a 32-bit ARM CPU with embedded memory and a 2.9-inch TFT reflective screen with 240x160 resolution. |
| 2. | GameCubeNintendo Corporation's console gaming system. It features a developer friendly format and introduces 1T-RAM technology, which reduces delays to the main memory and the graphics LSI mixed memory. The microprocessor is a custom IBM Power PC "Gekko" featuring a secondary cache (Level One: Instruction 32 KB, Data 32 KB (8-way); Level Two: 256 KB (2-way)). Games are supplied on a GameCube game disc. |
| 3. | GamerRefers to a person who plays games, sometimes role-playing games or trading card games; often a person who plays computer, console, arcade, or online games as a primary hobby or avocation. |
| 4. | Gateway PageSee "doorway page". |
| 5. | GatoredTo have been the victim of a hijackware program that seized control of an Internet shopping or surfing experience and caused the victim's browser to display ads and Web sites chosen by the program. Users may be gatored when they have unknowingly installed a program or plug-in with a hidden marketing agenda, which intrudes on the user's Web shopping to display ads or Web sites promoting competing products. The term gatored comes from the name of a plug-in that was one of the first hijackware products to be used by Web marketers. |
| 6. | GeckoA cross-platform Web browsing engine introduced by Netscape in 1998, distributed and developed as open-source software through Mozilla.org. Designed to be small, fast, and modular, the Gecko engine supports Internet standards including HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), XML, and the Document Object Model (DOM). Gecko is the layout engine in Netscape's Communicator software. |
| 7. | GENAGeneral Event Notification Architecture. An extension to HTTP defined by an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft and used to communicate events over the Internet between HTTP resources. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) services use GENA to send XML event messages to control points. |
| 8. | GenieAn online information service originally developed by General Electric (GE) Information Services as GEnie (General Electric network for information exchange); currently owned and provided by IDT Corporation as Genie (lowercase e). Genie provides business information, forums, home shopping, and news and can exchange e-mail with the Internet. |
| 9. | GGAGood Game All. GGA is often used in online and chat games at the conclusion of play. |
| 10. | GhostAn abandoned or no-longer-maintained Web site that remains accessible to visitors. |
| 11. | Going LiveUsed to identify a Web site that has been published to a Web server and can be browsed by site visitors. |
| 12. | Good Times virusA purported e-mail virus alluded to in a warning that has been propagated widely across the Internet, as well as by fax and standard mail. The letter claims that reading an e-mail message with the subject "Good Times" will cause damage to the user's system. In fact, it is currently impossible to harm a system by reading an e-mail message, although it is possible to include a virus in a file that is attached to an e-mail message. Some consider the chain letter itself to be the "virus" that wastes Internet bandwidth and the reader's time. |
| 13. | GopherAn Internet utility for finding textual information and presenting it to the user in the form of hierarchical menus, from which the user selects submenus or files that can be downloaded and displayed. One Gopher client may access all available Gopher servers, so the user accesses a common "Gopherspace". The name of the program is a three-way pun: it is designed to go for desired information; it tunnels through the Internet and digs the information up; and it was developed at the University of Minnesota, whose athletic teams are named the Golden Gophers. Gopher is being subsumed by the World Wide Web. |
| 14. | Gopher serverThe software that provides menus and files to a Gopher user. |
| 15. | Gopher siteA computer on the Internet on which a Gopher server runs. |
| 16. | GopherspaceThe total set of information on the Internet that is accessible as menus and documents through Gopher. |
| 17. | GOSIPGovernment Open Systems Interconnection Profile. |
| 18. | Government Open Systems Interconnection ProfileSee "GOSIP". |
| 19. | GPRSGeneral Packet Radio Service. A third-generation enhancement to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), which supports non-voice applications such as Web browsing and other servicing requiring transfer of data packets without limits in message size. Systems using the service can be immediately connected when needed and therefore seem to the users to be always on. |
| 20. | Graphics Interchange FormatSee "GIF". |
| 21. | Great PlainsMicrosoft Corporation's suite of business solution applications for finance, accounting, and management. Microsoft acquired the Great Plains applications in December 2000, when it purchased Great Plains Software, which had originally developed the suite of business accounting and management solutions. Great Plains Business Solutions include applications for accounting and finance, customer relations management, e-commerce, human resources, manufacturing, project accounting, and supply-chain management. |
| 22. | Great RenamingThe changeover to the current system of Usenet hierarchies throughout the Internet. Before the Great Renaming, which took place in 1985, nonlocal newsgroup names had the form net.*; for example, a group that carried source code, formerly named net.sources, was renamed comp.sources.misc. |
| 23. | GroupA collection of elements that can be treated as a whole. In various multiuser operating systems, a group is a set of user accounts, sometimes called members; privileges can be specified for the group, and each member will then have those privileges. |
| 24. | GroupwareSoftware intended to enable a group of users on a network to collaborate on a particular project. Groupware may provide services for communication (such as e-mail), collaborative document development, scheduling, and tracking. Documents may include text, images, or other forms of information. |
| 25. | GSLGrammar Specification Language. A grammar description format used by VoiceXML applications and other speech recognition systems. GSL was developed by Nuance and supports a number of XMLbased speech editing and voice-browsing applications. |
| 26. | GSMGlobal System for Mobile Communications. A digital cellular phone technology first deployed in 1992. In 2000, GSM was the predominant phone technology in Europe, and was used by 250 million subscribers worldwide. GSM phones offer a removable smart card containing subscriber account information. This card can be transferred from phone to phone quickly and easily, allowing the user to access his account from any phone in the system. Various enhancements to the GSM system allow increased Web browsing and data transfer options. |
| 27. | GuestA common name for a login account that can be accessed without a password. Bulletin board systems (BBSs) and service providers often maintain such an account so that prospective subscribers can sample the services offered. |
| 28. | Guest AccountAn account used to log onto a system or domain where the user does not have access. Generally, resources and access are severely limited. On Windows NT technology, this account is built in to all domains. |
| 29. | gunzipA GNU utility for decompressing files compressed with gzip. |
| 30. | gzipA GNU utility for compressing files. |
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