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sandboxing

sandboxing

6.5
A temporary drop in how a new website appears in search results
  • noun
  • /ˈsændˌbɑːksɪŋ/
  • Jargon
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  • Due to sandboxing, the new online store didn't appear in Google searches until the restrictions were lifted.

Examples

  • The website faced sandboxing for several months before it gained visibility in search results.

  • After undergoing sandboxing, the blog finally started attracting traffic from search engines.

  • To understand why they are irrelevant on Android, we have to focus on the way Google built its platform, using a model called sandboxing.

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sandboxing
  • Jargon
6.5

Surface Forms

sandboxing singular
sandboxings plural

Morphology

sandboxing = sandbox (opaque) = sand + box + ing

The word is built from sandbox + -ing, but the search-engine restriction sense is a specialized jargon extension that most learners cannot infer from the literal components.

Etymology

Sandboxing comes from the image of a sandbox, a simple box of sand where children can 'play safely' without making a mess. So when search engines 'sandbox' a new site, they keep it in a limited, safe place for a while before letting it appear fully in the results.