Monday, March 10, 2003		ITerminology

QXGA: Short for Quantum Extended Graphics Array, a display specification that is capable of supporting 2048 x 1536 resolution, or approximately 3.2 million pixels. Also see XGA, SXGA and UXGA.

White paper: A report on a topic given by an individual or group with authority on the topic, typically to explain the results of a development effort. Technology companies often publish white papers to explain newly developed technologies and can include an explanation of how the technology was developed, how it is used, benchmark and other testing results for the technology, statistical analyses, and other information. Companies often use white papers to educate people about their products and/or services as a way of marketing them.

Keyword stuffing: A SEO technique used by Web designers to overload keywords onto a Web page so that search engines will read the page as being relevant in a Web search. Because search engines scan Web pages for the words that are entered into the search criteria by the user, the more times a keyword appears on the Web page the more relevancy the search engine will assign to the page in the search results (this is only one way that search engines determine relevancy, however.) Search engines often penalize a site if the engine discovers keyword stuffing, as this practice is considered poor netiquette, and some search engines will even ban the offending Web pages from their search results.