Glossary
Short definitions of the terms used across our posts.
A
- AI Act
- The AI Act is the European Union's regulation on artificial intelligence, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
- AI Overviews
- AI Overviews is Google's name for the AI-written summaries that appear above the classic search results.
- AI search
- AI search is search in which a language model writes an answer out of several sources instead of only listing links.
B
- Backup
- A backup is a complete copy of a website, its files and its database, taken at a point in time.
C
- Content management system
- A content management system lets you change the texts and images on your website without touching code.
- Contextual advertising
- Contextual advertising is selected from the content a person is looking at right now, not from a profile of that person.
D
- Domain
- A domain is the address people type to reach your website, for example bown.at.
G
- Google Business Profile
- A Google Business Profile is the free entry a business keeps with Google, with address, opening hours, photos and reviews.
H
- Hosting
- Hosting is renting space and computing power on a server that keeps the files of your website available on the internet.
L
- Large language model
- A large language model is a program trained on very large amounts of text that predicts likely continuations of text.
R
- Responsive design
- Responsive design means one web page adjusts its layout to the screen it is shown on, from a phone to a desktop monitor.
S
- SEO
- SEO stands for search engine optimization, the work of making a website easier to find in search results.
- SSL certificate
- An SSL certificate is a small file on the server that encrypts the connection between a visitor and your website.
- Structured data
- Structured data is machine-readable information inside a web page that describes what the page is about.
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