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  2. Web beacon - Wikipedia

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    A web beacon is any of several techniques used to track who is visiting a web page. They can also be used to see if an email was read or forwarded or if a web page was copied to another website. [7] The first web beacons were small digital image files that were embedded in a web page or email. The image could be as small as a single pixel (a ...

  3. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. [2] It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google ...

  4. The Girl in the Spider's Web (film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $35.2 million [6] The Girl in the Spider's Web is a 2018 action-thriller film [7] [8] directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote with Jay Basu and Steven Knight, and based on the 2015 novel of the same name by David Lagercrantz, which in turn is based on characters in the Millennium book series by Stieg Larsson.

  5. Excite (web portal) - Wikipedia

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    Excite. Active but not updated since 2021 (As of 2024, all of Excite's operations are controlled by services outside of the business.) Excite is an American website (historically a web portal) operated by IAC that provides outsourced internet content such as a metasearch engine, with outsourced weather and news content on the main page. As of ...

  6. List of free and open-source web applications - Wikipedia

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    All web applications, both traditional and Web 2.0, are operated by software running somewhere. This is a list of free software which can be used to run alternative web applications. Also listed are similar proprietary web applications that users may be familiar with. Most of this software is server-side software, often running on a web server.

  7. Client portal - Wikipedia

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    Client portal. A client portal is an electronic gateway to a collection of digital files, services, and information, accessible over the Internet through a web browser . The term is most often applied to a sharing mechanism between an organization and its clients. [1] The organization provides a secure entry point, typically via a website, that ...

  8. Web cache - Wikipedia

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    A forward cache is a cache outside the web server's network, e.g. in the client's web browser, in an ISP, or within a corporate network. A network-aware forward cache only caches heavily accessed items. A proxy server sitting between the client and web server can evaluate HTTP headers and choose whether to store web content.

  9. Shared resource - Wikipedia

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    Shared resource access can also be implemented with Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). Naming convention and mapping. The share can be accessed by client computers through some naming convention, such as UNC (Universal Naming Convention) used on DOS and Windows PC computers. This implies that a network share can be ...