| flat design | A style of web design made popular in the late 2000s. Flat design uses no 3D effects or skeuomorphism. Examples of flat design in popular culture include the Windows Metro UI and Android OS theme. |
| unique content | Unique content is a term used in SEO to mean text based content that is original and has not been used before. If a webpage is said to be lacking in unique content, it means that it has little content that is unique to that particular page. |
| conceptual search | Noun phrase. A form of search focusing on attributes or qualifiers that are relevant to a specific topic or concept. e.g., given the concept of aerodynamics, a conceptual query may look for definition of aerodynamics or value of aerodynamics. Search engines typically must infer the searchers intent from an incomplete query expression. |
| popup | An advertisement that is created on top of or within the active browser window. |
| validate | Verb. Every time I use this word people reach for their W3C manuals. When I speak of search engines validating Web sites, I dont mean they are looking to see if the HTML code meets some arbitrary standard. I mean they pass each URL through a process whereby they establish, according to their own criteria, that the site is not spam. Many spam sites appear to validate. The search engines are not perfect. Nonetheless, many spam sites dont last long because they dont validate or their validation is revoked. Maybe I could have used a better expression, but I cant think of one. |
