Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.