Terminologofecommerce

Auction
competitive process by which a seller solictis consective bids from buyer or a buyer solictis bids from seller.

Avatars
animated computer character that exhibit humanlike movements and behaviors.

Back End
the activies that support online order fulfillment, inventory management, purchasing from suppliers,payment processing,packaing,and delivery.

Bartering Exchange
A marketplace in which an intermediary arranges barter transaction.

Blog
A personal Web site that is open to the public to read and interact with;dedicated to specific tpoics or issues.

Buy-side e marketplace
Aprivate e-marketplace in which one company make purchases from invited suppliers.

Desktop search
Search tools thatt search the contents of a user's or organization computer files,rather than searching the Internet . The emphasis is on finding all the information that is available on the user's PC,including Web browser histories,e-mail archives,and wordprocesses documents,as well as well as in all internal files and database.

Digital Products
Goods that can be transformed to digital format and delivered over the internet.

Disintermediation
Eliminatiom of intermediaries between sellers and buyers.

Double Auction
An auction in which multiple buyer and their bidding proce are matched with multiple sellers and their asking prices, considering the quantities on both sides.

Dynamic Pricing
 Prices that change based on supply and demand relationships at any give time.

E-Bartering (electronic  bartering)
Bratering conducted online,usually in bratering exchange.

E-distributor
An e-commerce intermediary that connects manufacturers with business buyer (customer) by aggregating the catalogs of many manufaturers in one place the intermediart's Web site.

E-auctions
Auctions conducted online.

E-catalogs
The presentation of product information in an electronic form; the backbone of most e-selling sites.

Electronic shopping cart
An order-processing technology that allows customers to accumulate items they wish to buy while theycontinue to shop.

E-mall (online mall)
An online shoppint center where many online store are located.

Folksonomy
the practice and method of collaboratively creating, classifying, and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. (collabortive tagging,social classification,social indexing, social tagging)

Enterprise Search
The practice of identifying and enabling specific content across the enterprise to be indexed, searched, and displayed to authorized users.

 Forward Auction
An auction in which a seller entertains bids from buyers. Bidders increase price seqentially.

Informediary
Electronic intermediaries that provide and /or control information flow in cyberspace,often aggreating information thruogh the Website.