GA4, or Google Analytics 4, is Google's event-based analytics platform that measures how users find and use websites and apps across devices.
Gain staging is the practice of setting signal levels at each stage of an audio chain to keep noise low and avoid…
A game console is a dedicated computer for playing video games on a TV or handheld screen, built on fixed hardware within…
A game engine is the reusable software framework that renders graphics, simulates physics, plays audio and runs game logic so teams can…
A game genre is a category of video games grouped by their core gameplay, rules and player goals rather than by setting,…
Game mechanics are the rules and systems that define what players can do in a game, how the game responds and how…
A gameplay loop is the repeating cycle of actions, challenges and rewards that a player performs in a game, forming the core…
A gaming PC is a personal computer built with a powerful graphics card, fast processor and cooling to run demanding video games…
Gamut mapping converts colors that a printer or display cannot reproduce into the closest achievable colors while preserving the look of the…
A GAN is a generative AI model in which a generator and a discriminator compete, so the generator learns to produce realistic…
A gas fee is the charge paid to run a transaction or smart contract call on a blockchain, priced as gas used…
Gatekeeper is the macOS security feature that checks downloaded apps for a valid developer signature and Apple notarization before they first open.
Gazebo is an open-source 3D robot simulator that models physics, sensors and environments so robot software can be tested before it runs…
The GDPR is the European Union regulation that governs how organizations process personal data, setting principles, legal bases, rights and fines.
GeForce NOW is NVIDIA's cloud gaming service that streams PC games a player already owns from data center GPUs to almost any…
Generative AI is the branch of artificial intelligence whose models learn patterns in data and create new text, images, audio, video or…
GEO, or generative engine optimization, is the practice of making content retrievable, quotable and cited in answers produced by AI search engines.
Geotargeting in international SEO means signaling which country a site or section serves, so search engines rank it for searchers in that…
Gesture navigation is a mobile UX model in which swipes from screen edges replace on-screen buttons for going home, back and switching…
Git is a distributed version control system that records project history as content-addressed snapshots, letting developers branch, merge and collaborate.
GitHub is a cloud platform that hosts Git repositories and adds pull requests, code review, issue tracking and Actions automation for software…
GitOps is a DevOps operating model in which Git holds the desired state of infrastructure and an automated agent keeps live systems…
A global shutter is an image sensor readout method that starts and ends exposure for every pixel at once, removing rolling shutter…
GNOME is a free Linux desktop environment built on GNOME Shell, Mutter and GTK, known for a minimal, workflow-focused design and Wayland…
GNSS, the global navigation satellite system, gives outdoor robots absolute position and time by measuring signals from GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou.
GNU is the free software project and operating system whose compilers, C library, shell and core utilities form the user space of…
Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed for simple, concurrent network services, with built-in tooling and single-binary deployment.
The golden ratio in photography composition is a proportion of about 1.618 to 1 used to place subjects and lines through the…
Google AI Mode is a conversational search experience that answers complex queries with a generated response built from many parallel web searches.
A Google Business Profile is the free business listing shown in Google Search and Maps, and the main data source for visibility…
Google Cloud Run is a serverless platform that runs stateless containers on demand, scaling them automatically with traffic and down to zero…
Google Pay is Google's payment method that lets shoppers pay online and in stores with saved cards, passing tokenized card data to…
Google Play is the main app distribution platform for Android, combining a storefront, developer console, billing system and on-device update services.
Google Privacy Sandbox was a Chrome and Android program of ad-targeting and measurement APIs meant to replace third-party cookies, retired 2025.
Google reviews are customer ratings and comments on a Google Business Profile that shape a local business's trust and visibility in Maps…
Google Search Console is Google's free tool for measuring a site's search performance, checking indexing and fixing issues that limit SEO visibility.
Google Shopping is the product search and advertising service where merchants show items with image, price and store using feeds from Merchant…
Googlebot is the web crawler of Google Search that discovers, fetches and renders pages so they can be considered for indexing and…
A GOP, or group of pictures, is the repeating structure of I-, P- and B-frames that interframe video codecs use to compress…
A GPAI model is a general-purpose AI model under the EU AI Act, trained at scale to perform many distinct tasks and…
The GPL is a copyleft free software license that lets anyone use, modify and share code, provided distributed derivative works keep the…
GPON, or gigabit passive optical network, is the ITU-T G.984 fiber access standard that shares 2.5 Gbit/s among homes through passive splitters.
GPT, the generative pre-trained transformer, is a family of decoder-only language models that generate text by predicting the next token in a…
A GPU, or graphics processing unit, is a massively parallel processor that renders images and accelerates data-parallel workloads such as AI and…
GPU inference is the execution of trained AI models on graphics processors to generate predictions or text quickly, at scale and at…
Graceful degradation is a reliability design in which an automated system keeps its core functions running with reduced capability when a dependency…
A graceful restart reloads a server process with new configuration or code while letting in-flight requests finish, so clients see no dropped…
A graph is a data structure of vertices connected by edges, used to model networks, dependencies and relationships that lists and trees…
A graph database stores data as nodes and relationships, letting queries follow connections directly, which suits networks, fraud and recommendations.
A graphics driver is the software that lets the operating system and games control a GPU, strongly affecting performance, stability and features…