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Search Engine
A web based tool to search information on the web. Search Engines usually use spiders or crawlers to find what is available on the web and through different algorithms determine the relevancy of a webpage for specific search criteria.

Search History
Many search engines store user search history information. This data can be used for better ad targeting or to make old information more findable.

Security Certificate
SSL Protocol is used to establish a secure connection using information stored as a text file.

SEO – Search engine optimization
To design web pages to allow them to rank at the top in the results of a search engine for a given set of keywords.

Server
A computer running that software, assigned an IP address, and connected to the Internet so that it can provide documents via the World Wide Web.

SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Protocol used to send electronic mail from a server on the Internet.

Spiders
See crawlers

SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
A protocol developed to send information over the internet in a securely; widely used for account web pages and transactional web pages.

Sender Policy Framework
System used by AOL to authenticate the origin of an email. Without this signature, the message will automatically go to your junk folder.

Stemming
During a search, word endings are automatically removed in order to increase the search results. Searches are then made on the basis of the stem, with most common endings added. Ex: RUN, RUNNING, RUNNER