| Site map | A site map (or sitemap) is a web page that lists the pages on … |
| SOA | An application architecture in which all functions, or services, are defined using a description … |
| SOAP | Short for Simple Object Access Protocol, a lightweight XML-based messaging protocol used to … |
| Spam | Any search engine marketing technique that is inconsistent with a search engine's intention to … |
| Spam Indexing | Any search engine marketing technique that is inconsistent with a search engine's intention to … |
| Spamdex | Spamdexing is any of various methods to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources … |
| Spider | Software developed and run by a search engine or other research entity that surfs … |
| Splog | Short for spam blog, it's a slang term used to describe blogs that are … |
| Status Found | The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be … |
| Status OK | Status 200 - The file request was successful. For example, a page or image … |
| Status Unauthorized | The request requires user authentication. The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing … |
| Stemming | Word variations. For example, if I entered the query "swim", a search engine that … |
| Stop words | Stop words are words that occur very often and which do not convey any … |