Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.