Age
Some search engines take the age of a webpage, link, website registration term or other historical data into account when judging the quality or trust-worthiness of a website or webpage.
Agent Name
The name of the software accessing a webpage.
Agent Name Delivery
A form of cloaking whereby a different page is presented, depending on the Agent Name requesting the page. For instance, one page would be presented for Mozilla agent names (human query) and a different page for Slurp (Inktomi's robot).
Alert Ellesmere Island
The northernmost settlement in the world, located in Nunavut Canada - home to an Echelon surveillance station.
Alexa
A major search engine and compiler of a Traffic Ranking system. Owned by Amazon.
Alexa Rank
The relativity of traffic to a website. One is the greatest traffic site. It is believed to rank about the top seven million traffic sites.
Aggregate
A collection of information in which no information pertaining to an individual can be distinguished or identified.
Algorithm
Software or rules using a mathematical formula to rank websites or webpages. A logical detailed process to achieve a specified result.
Algorithmic Search
An organic SERPs as opposed to a Paid search, such as Overture.
AlKalineBot
The name of vestris.com's spider.
Allinanchor
Query command to search only the link anchors of a web page for text.
Allinsite
Query command to search only a specified site for terms.
Allintext
Query command to search only the body text for terms.
Allintitle
Query command to search only the Title tags for terms.
Allinurl
Query command to search only the URL for terms.
AlltheWeb
A major search engine.
Alluets-Feucherolles
A Frenchelon signals surveillance station in France.
Alpha
The extra return awarded to an investor by making an investment instead of merely accepting the market return.
Alphabar
Method of subdividing a category by letter. Letters of the alphabet are listed across the top of a page, and each letter category contains sites beginning with that letter.
Alt Attribute
The HTML element placed within an image tag.
Alt Text
Text specified in the Alt Attribute.
AltaVista
A major search engine.
Alternative Text
Text which is provided as an alternative or substitute for an image.
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