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SEO Glossary with G Terms

Google

Google is the leading search engines of our time. Google was founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998.The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Google Adsense

Google’s trademarked name of its contextual advertisement system that allows its publisher sites to display AdWords PPC advertisements on their web pages and earn advertising revenue quickly and easily.

Google Maps

Google maps(for a time named Google Local) is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner, and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.

Google bot

Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine. If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or other well-behaved spider, they can do so by with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file.