SEO Glossary - Letter M
mail reflector
reflector A specialized address from which e-mail is automatically forwarded to a set of other addresses, commonly used to implement a mail discussion group.
Megabyte
A million bytes. Actually, technically, 1024 kilobytes.
Meta Information
Meta information means "information about information." In HTML, meta tags describe the content of the document in which they're written. Meta tags have two possible attributes: and . Meta tags with an HTTP-EQUIV attribute are analogous to HTTP headers that can control the action of browsers. Meta tags with a NAME attribute are used primarily by indexing and searching tools. These tools can gather meta information in order to sort and classify Web pages. One way to help your document show up more frequently in search engines and directories is to use the META NAME attribute to set keywords that will pull up your site when someone does a search for those words.
Meta Search Engine
A website that takes your search query and passes it on to several different search engines and directories, then summarizes the results in a logical manner for you to review.
Method
A method is a function assigned to an object. For example, any Form object in JavaScript has a submit method, which, when invoked, submits the form. Since JavaScript functions are also data values, you can combine functions or invoke them from other statements by using methods.
MILNET
A part if the DDN network that makes up the Internet, centered on non-classified military communications.
MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) -- The standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc.
An email program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard.
When non-text files are sent using the MIME standard they are converted (encoded) into text - although the resulting text is not really readable.
Generally speaking the MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent (e.g. a Quicktime™ video file), and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form.
Besides email software, the MIME standard is also universally used by Web Servers to identify the files they are sending to Web Clients, in this way new file formats can be accommodated simply by updating the Browsers’ list of pairs of MIME-Types and appropriate software for handling each type.
Mirror
Generally speaking, “to mirror” is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to “mirror sites” which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource.
Another common use of the term “mirror” refers to an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing anything.
Modem
(MOdulator, DEModulator) -- A device that you connect to your computer and to a phone line, that allows the computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone does for humans.
modem
MOdulator/DEModulator). A device that allows a PC to communicate and exchange information with other modem-equipped computers via telephone lines.
Mosaic
The World Wide Web client program developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It was essentially the first graphical WWW browser
Mosaic
The first WWW browser that was available for the Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX all with the same interface. Mosaic really started the popularity of the Web. The source-code to Mosaic has been licensed by several companies and there are several other pieces of software as good or better than Mosaic, most notably, Netscape.
Mozilla
Mozilla is an open-source Web browser that is based on an early version of Netscape Communicator 5.0. Like other open-source projects, the development is coordinated through discussion forums. Releases are periodically updated. Mozilla was first released in March
Multimedia
Before the personal computer boom, the word multimedia had a much simpler connotation - paper, glass, and acrylic on canvas was (and is) multimedia. Today, the definition has expanded to include using a computer to present and combine text, graphics, video, animation, and sound. The birth of the Web led to a great (perceived) potential for multimedia, because of the ability of networked computers to (someday) deliver this information to all users and to (um, soon) allow everyone to join in the world of multimedia publishing.
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