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If I send someone a link to a site with a search bar, will he/she see what I searched for?

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Cpy04
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I sent someone a link to an online dictionary, and in the search bar were some suggestions that are not relevant with that site and might cause some confusion like "what is that? I have not searched for that". Probably a silly question, but I am curious. Please excuse me if there are any mistakes, English is not my mother language. Thanks

I sent someone a link to an online dictionary, and in the search bar were some suggestions that are not relevant with that site and might cause some confusion like "what is that? I have not searched for that". Probably a silly question, but I am curious. Please excuse me if there are any mistakes, English is not my mother language. Thanks

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mrbunnylamakins
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Cpy04 said

I sent someone a link to an online dictionary, and in the search bar were some suggestions that are not relevant with that site and might cause some confusion like "what is that? I have not searched for that". Probably a silly question, but I am curious. Please excuse me if there are any mistakes, English is not my mother language. Thanks

I see why not

Like this for example I Googled Firefox

https://www.google.com/search?num=20&site=&source=hp&q=fire...


moderator fixed that hyperlink which was going to "example .com"

Modified by the-edmeister

cor-el
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That would only happen if the link has a GET parameter appended with the search data (?xxxx=xxx). A clean link to a web page won't cause problems.

Cpy04
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Thanks to both of you. I sent a clean link, there was nothing after the ".com/".

Modified by Cpy04