Scooter

The Altavista spider. The name is in reference to the world famous Altavista
Raceway that holds motorcycle races every year.

Search Engine
A program designed to search a database. In the context of the Internet this
refers to a web site that contains a database of information from other websites.
 Directories of sites are *not* search engines (such as Yahoo)

  Search MSN
The Microsoft Search engines. Currently using results by Altavista and Looksmart.

Search Term
aka:Query.

  Search Terms
The words that are typed into a search engine search box. Also called Search
Words, Keywords, and Queries.

  Server
A computer which is designed to generate information for connected users (client).
 In the context of the world wide web, this refers to a web site that delivers web
pages to users.

  Sidewinder
The Infoseek spider.

  Slurp
The Inktomi spider.

  Snap!
A medium sized web site directory. Uses Inktomi for non-directory matches.

  Spamdexing
The submission of pages that are intended to rank artificially high by various
unethical techniques. These can include submitting hundreds of slightly different
pages designed to rank high, small invisible text, or word scrambled pages.
Most of these techniques are flagged by search engines as spam.

  Spamming
See spamdexing. A broad term mainly referring to unsolicited junk email.

  Spider
The main program used by search engines to retrieve web pages to include in
their database.

  Spidering
While a spider is downloading pages, it is called Spidering. Most modern spiders
used by search engines are only responsible for downloading the pages and
storing them raw in a temporary database. An indexer is then used to process
 the page for inclusion in a search engine database. Spiders have a wide range
of variables and guidelines that they can be setup to use and follow. Some
include: speed at which it downloads pages, whether it will walk or crawl through
 a website, whether it only goes after index pages, what time of day it is active,
which domains it will connect to, how many pages it will accept from one domain.

  Splash Page
Also referred to as a Welcome Mat Page. It is a page that normally just includes
 a logo and a "click here to enter" type link. These can be used to direct traffic
based upon user variables.

  Spoofing
aka : IP Spoofing.

  SSI
An acronym for Server Side Includes. These are HTML Comment commands
placed in an HTML file, to cause a webserver to execute some action when the
page is viewed by a user. These include calling external programs such as CGI
programs, displaying date or the last modified date on the file. Apache is the
most widely used web server and has a wide range of SSI commands available.

  Static IP Address
An IP address that remains constant each time a person logs on to the internet..