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Meta Search Engine
A server which passes queries on to many search engines and/or directories
and then summarizes all the results. Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Infind, and
Metacrawler, are examples of meta search engines.
Meta Tag
A markup tag, placed as part of the heading of the page (but not seen
by users) that contains information about the contents of a Web page.
Visitors don't see these tags, but search engines do. Two important meta
tags are the description tag and the keywords tag. Search engines use
the information to find, index and list the page. Effective, descriptive
meta tags mean better search engine results for your Web pages.
Mirror Sites
Multiple copies of websites or Web pages, often on different servers,
with the exact same, or similar, content. The process of registering these
multiple copies with search engines is often treated as spam, because
it artificially increases the visibility and link popularity of the pages.
MySQL Database
MySQL is a relational database management system. A relational database
stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one
big storeroom. This adds speed and flexibility. The tables are linked
by defined relations making it possible to combine data from several tables
on request. The SQL part of MySQL stands for "Structured Query Language"
- the most common standardized language used to access databases.
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