A fairly large internet directory formerly called The Mining Company.
 

Adult Words

Words that are censored by search engines. These include the FCC's seven naughty words. Search engines often mantain two databases, one with all the bad stuff to keep away from children, and one for the general public. Adult words are called STOP WORDS by the search engines because the indexer STOPS when it finds one of these words.
 

AgentName Delivery

The practice of delivering a custom page based upon the user agent string a browser or spider uses to identify itself.
 

Algorithm

In the context of search engines, it is the mathematical programming system used to determine which web pages are displayed in search results.
 

Altavista

One of the most successful and largest search engines.
 

AOL Netfind

The America OnLine search engine. The AOL browser defaults to its own search engine at search.aol.com when the search function of a browser is used. Currently using a combination of Inktomi and the Open Directory Project.
 

Apache Web Server

The leading web server software on the the Internet. Apache is an open source project.
 

Architext Spider

A spider run by the Excite search engine.
 

Ask Jeeves

A meta search engine.
 

ASP

Active Server Pages a server based scripting language that is used to to provide dynamic content and build database driven web sites where the browser may have no scripting at all. Most often used in Cloaking activity.