Yandex is an internet technologies company that operates in Russia, CIS and Turkey. It is the largest Russian and fourth-largest world internet search engine. Yandex is an acronym for the phrase Yet Another Indexer. As of March 2013, Yandex had about 61% of the Russian search market (source: LiveInternet.ru). Yandex’s miss...
Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.
Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
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.
websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate dec...
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.
Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.