Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Search Engine
computer software that, through the use of bots and by seeking out keywords, searches an extremely large number of documents and locations on the World Wide Web and Internet for specific information. After searching for information related to the word or words used in the search, the program com-piles a page of results, listing hyperlinks pointing to Web pages that contain (hopefully) the desired information. Although .search engine. refers to the actual search software, the term is often associated with a specific service such as Alta Vista or HotBot. Understanding how to ask a search engine for the desired information can minimize the frustration sometimes experienced with using such a service. see Search Engine Tips, page 275.
