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| Term | Definition |
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| Fair Use | The stated exceptions of allowed usage of work under copyright without requiring permission of the original copyright holder. Fair use is covered in section 107 of the Copyright code. |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as pet grooming and cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who are tired of answering the same question over and over. |
| Favicon | Favorites Icon - a small icon which appears next to URLs in a web browser. Upload an image named favicon.ico in the root of your site to have your site associated with a favicon. |
| Feed | Many content management, systems such as blogs, allow readers to subscribe to content update notifications via RSS or XML feeds. Feeds can also refer to pay per click syndicated feeds, or merchant product feeds. Merchant product feeds have become less effective as a means of content generation due to improving duplicate content filters. |
| FFA | Free For All - Free for all pages are pages which allow anyone to add a link to them. Generally these links do not pull much weight in search relevancy algorithms because many automated programs fill these pages with links pointing at low quality websites. |
| Filter | Certain activities or signatures which make a page or site appear unnatural might make search engines inclined to filter / remove them out of the search results. For example, if a site publishes significant duplicate content it may get a reduced crawl priority and get filtered out of the search results. Some search engines also have filters based on link quality, link growth rate, and anchor text. Some pages are also penalized for spamming. |
| Fire Wall or Firewall | A system used to prevent unauthorized internet users from accessing information from a private network. A firewall is a protection device used to navigate the traffic in a computer network in trusted areas (internal network) and areas of no trust (internet). |
| FOB | Shipping term used to indicate who is responsible for paying transportation charges. |
| Frames | A technique created by Netscape used to display multiple smaller pages on a single display. This web design technique allows for consistent site navigation, but makes it hard to deep link at relevant content. Given the popularity of server side includes, content management systems, and dynamic languages there really is no legitimate reason to use frames to build a content site today. |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol - a protocol for transferring data between computers. Many content management systems (such as blogging platforms) include FTP capabilities. Web development software such as Dreamweaver also comes with FTP capabilities. There are also a number of free or cheap FTP programs such as Cute FTP, Core FTP, and Leech FTP. |
| Fulfillment | The activity of processing customer shipments. Though most manufacturing and warehouse operations will process customer shipments, this term usually refers to operations that ship many small orders (usually parcels) to end users as opposed to operations that process larger shipments to other manufacturers, wholesalers or resellers. Examples of fulfillment operations would include companies that process shipments for mail-order catalogs, Internet stores or repair parts. |
| Fuzzy Search | Search which will find matching terms when terms are misspelled (or fuzzy). Fuzzy search technology is similar to stemming technology, with the exception that fuzzy search corrects the misspellings at the users end and stemming searches for other versions of the same core word within the index. |