Latest AI Dictionary posts
This is a growing glossary, published a term at a time. Each entry is short, concrete, and written for founders and operators rather than for other engineers.
Intelligent Automation, Minus the Theater
June 1, 2026
"Intelligent automation" sounds like something that comes with a sales deck and a six-figure contract: bot fleets, hyperautomation suites, a "Center of Excellence." For a small business or...
AI Agents and Agentic AI: When AI Stops Talking and Starts Doing
May 30, 2026
Technical meaning. An AI agent is a software system that uses a model to pursue a goal through steps, tools, and decisions. In practice, it can decide what...
Hallucination
May 26, 2026
What it means. A hallucination is when an AI model states something false as if it were true. The model is not lying. It is predicting plausible text,...
Token
May 24, 2026
What it means. A token is a small chunk of text an AI model reads and writes, usually a few characters or part of a word. Models do...
API
May 22, 2026
What it means. An API (application programming interface) is a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for something and get a structured answer back....
Mobile Site Speed: The Sticky Door Costing You Visitors
May 20, 2026
Technical meaning. Mobile site speed measures how quickly your website loads and becomes usable on a phone. Google's PageSpeed Insights reports lab and field measurements and summarizes them...
The Google Knowledge Graph: Does Google Know Who You Are?
May 18, 2026
Technical meaning. The Google Knowledge Graph is Google's internal database of real-world entities, people, places, organizations, and things, and the facts that connect them. It is what powers...
Open Map Data: The Free Map Assistants Quietly Use
May 16, 2026
Technical meaning. OpenStreetMap is a free, openly licensed map of the world, built and maintained by a global community. "Open map data" refers to whether your business is...
Knowledge-Graph Entities: Your Record in the Machines
May 14, 2026
Technical meaning. Wikidata is a free, structured knowledge database from the Wikimedia movement, where facts are stored in a machine-readable form. An "entity" is a single record in...
Why a Wikipedia Page Carries So Much Weight With AI
May 12, 2026
Technical meaning. Wikipedia is a free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. A Wikipedia page about a business or person is a community-maintained article that many search systems and AI...
Headings: The Outline AI Reads First
May 10, 2026
Technical meaning. Headings are HTML tags that mark the titles and subtitles of a page in order of importance. The h1 is the main heading,...
The Title Tag: The Label on Your Page Spine
May 8, 2026
Technical meaning. The title tag is a piece of HTML that defines the official title of a web page. It is the text shown in the browser...
Structured Data: Labeling Your Facts for Machines
May 6, 2026
Technical meaning. Structured data is information on a web page written in a standardized, machine-readable format, most commonly JSON-LD using the Schema.org vocabulary...
The Hidden "Do Not List Me" Sign on Your Website
May 4, 2026
Technical meaning. A robots meta tag is a small instruction in a page's code, or an X-Robots-Tag in its server response,...
Why Some Sites Are Invisible Without JavaScript
May 3, 2026
Technical meaning. JavaScript is a programming language that runs in your web browser to build parts of a page after it first loads. A page is...
What a Sitemap Is, in Plain English
May 2, 2026
Technical meaning. A sitemap is a file, usually sitemap.xml, that lists the pages on a website so that search engines and crawlers can find...
llms.txt: The Cheat Sheet You Can Hand an AI
May 1, 2026
Technical meaning. llms.txt is a plain-text file placed at the root of a website that gives AI language models a concise, curated summary...
What "AI Crawler Access" Means (and Why robots.txt Decides It)
May 1, 2026
Technical meaning. A web crawler, also called a bot or spider, is an automated program that visits web pages and reads their content. A...
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