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- Active Server Pages
- (See ASP.)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Photoshop, from Adobe Systems, Inc., has been the model against which other
paint programs are compared for many years. It originally only ran on Macintosh systems, which was a strong selling point for Macs,
especially among graphic artists. Today, Adobe Photoshop runs on both Macintosh and Windows PCs.
- Adwords
- On Google.com, after the searcher enters his keywords, two lists are
displayed. The primary list on the left, and a set of small colored boxes on
the right which feature websites that pay to have their links featured
prominently for specific keywords. Each time a searcher clicks on a link in
one of these featured boxes, the advertiser is charged by Google. Google
refers to this cost-per-click advertising program as "adwords".
- Affiliate Program
- A method of advertising your website in which you would pay
somebody for each potential client that they send to you.
- Agent Name
- The name of a
spider as defined by the owner. For example, the agent name for the
spider owned by Northern Light is "Gulliver".
- Algorithm
- A mathematical formula. In the context of search engines it refers
to the mathematical formula used to rank websites.
- Altavista
- One of the first large search engines.
- Applications
- A program or group of programs including database programs, word processors, and
spreadsheets.
- ASP
- Acronym for "Active Server Pages". ASP is a Microsoft technology that runs inside Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
(ASP also stands for 'Application Service Provider' depending on
the context).
- ASP.Net
- Microsoft's next generation of the ASP language, also known as
"dot net". It provides a complete environment for
content management and sharing over the Internet.
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