In article <199512220220.DAA27203@utopia.hacktic.nl> nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes: nobody> I just stopped in on Digital's new Alta Vista page, and was nobody> surprised to find that the query field was filled in--with a nobody> search I ran 3 or 4 days ago. The forms interface for Alta Vista uses METHOD="GET", which means the parameters for the query are encoded in the URL, not transmitted separately as it would be for METHOD="POST". For example, a search for "cypherpunks" sends a request for the URL http://www.altavista.digital.com\ /cgi-bin/query?what=web&q=cypherpunks&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&pg=q If I bookmark that URL and return to it later, Alta Vista will rerun the query just as it did the first time (btw, the first two hits from that search are detweiler pages). On several visits to http://www.altavista.digital.com/ I see no evidence that they are caching queries, so I suspect you cached the query yourself by bookmarking a search result. Of course, this does not mean that one shouldn't have the usual privacy concerns that apply to any WWW service...