SERPS - What they are
Everyone who ever had anything to do with search engines has heard the tearm SERPS. But what does it mean? The word has been used for State Earnings Related Pension Scheme or Software Engineering Research and Practise. But obviously, those have nothing to do with search engines. Common interpretations of the SERPS term regarding search engines are Search Engine Ranking Positions or Search Engine Ranking Pages.
The correct meaning of the term SERPS though, as it refers to the pages a search engine returns when you enter a keyword, is Search Engine Result Pages
So the correct answer to the question »What are SERPS?« would be: »SERPS are Search Engine Result Pages«.