Internet Glossary M-S

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Internet glossary from M to S.


Meta search
A method to search for meta data in documents.

Meta tags

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
MIDI is an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers, and other equipment to communicate, control and synchronise with each other.

MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)

MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group)
A standard codec for computer audio and video.

Another commonly used extension for MPEG files.

Multimedia (in web terms)
Multimedia is media and content that utilises a combination of different content forms.

MySQL is a relational database management system.

A web browser just like Internet Explorer.


A web browser.

Page hits (Page impressions, Page views)

Page rank
A link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, with the purpose of 'measuring' its relative importance within the set.

PDF (Portable Document Format)
A file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange.

Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language)

PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)

A plug-in consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application (a web browser or an email client, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function 'on demand'.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
A bitmap image format that employs lossless data compression (typically uses the "png" file-extension).

POP (Post Office Protocol)
A standard communication protocol to retrieve emails from an email server.


Real Audio
A proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks.

Real Video
A common multimedia video format developed by Real Networks.

Redirect (in web terms)
The action when a web page automatically forwards (redirects) the user to another location.

Rich Media
A broad range of interactive digital media which exhibits dynamic motion, taking advantage of enhanced sensory features such as video, audio and animation.

RGB (Red Green Blue)
The combination of the three primary colours that can represent a full colour spectrum.
Learn more about RGB in our HTML tutorial


Scripting language
A scripting language, script language or extension language is a programming language that allows some control of a single, or multiple, software application(s).

Search engine
Computer program used to search and catalog (index) the millions of pages of available information on the web. Common search engines are Google, Yahoo and bing.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)


A brief introduction to what we do,
the core team and some of our work.