New Froggblog feature - Search 'word of the week'

We'd like to welcome you to a new feature on the Froggblog; search 'word of the week'.

Every Friday, we will publish a new 'search' related word or phrase on the Froggblog and provide our explanation as to what this word means. Why are we doing this when there are already so many good glossaries across the Internet? Well, firstly, we don't just want to copy or refer to somebody else's good work; we want to create our own. If you have visited our website in recent months you may have noticed that the glossary page sits empty; it has done for far too long! So this gives us an opportunity to start filling that page. Also, our clients often ask for a straightforward definition of a word or phrase that they might have heard either from us or from elsewhere. We often find that the definition they have picked up from somebody else is rather different to how we would put it; either plain wrong or complete gobbledygook!

We will therefore endeavour to put things in plain English!

There is no real pattern to the words that will be selected. I will simply ask the Frogg for a letter and pick the first word or phrase that comes to mind. So without further ado, Frogg, give me the first letter...

'I'...ok, a slightly obvious place to start but let's go with...

'Index'

Think of an index as a database; a database of stored web pages and the content which sits upon these pages. The index is created by the process of 'spidering' (doh, that's two words of the week!). A spider (robot, bot, crawler) is a program used by search engines to follow links from web page to web page. As it goes on its merry travels it takes a copy of each page to store in its index.

Sometimes it would appear it is difficult to define one word without introducing another!!

Check back next week for the latest word(s) of the week!