Google launches dictionary to explain tech jargon
If you’re confused by terms surrounding cyber security attacks and digital tools, a new dictionary seeks to explain using simple language.
Communicators can now understand what technology specialists are saying.
An incubator project in Google’s parent company, Alphabet, aims to become the Urban Dictionary for tech jargon.
The project is called Sideways Dictionary, and it explains some of the technology field’s most complex concepts in layman’s terms.
One example is the definition for DDoS (which is shorthand for distributed denial of service) attack. The Guardian ran a definition of last fall, and described it as an attack “in which a network of computers infected with special malware, known as a ‘botnet,’ are coordinated into bombarding a server with traffic until it collapses under the strain.”
Compare The Guardian’s explanation to Sideways’ definition:
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