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Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

Websites using Amazon technologies

Websites using some type of Facebook technology.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

This script is the defacto way to enable use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet Explorer.

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

Facebook Connect allow users to connect their Facebook identity, friends and, privacy to any website. Facebook Connect is Facebook's first attempt to allow access to Facebook user data outside of Facebook itself. The company is describing it as giving third party applications access to much of the same data as Facebook applicat...

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.