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Originally Posted by bluecar1
thats very interesting ass they have always denied knowing the URL you visit.
you can take that one stage further, what about keeping search engine URL's with the search data in them?
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in my house / networks all of the following are banned
search engine browser addins (spyware), social networking sites (virus and security risk),nice big hosts file to block majority of ads, and only me and the wife have unfiltered web access
peter
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My understanding always was that they use the resulting URL from the GET request to read the search query - they can't read the form input. No point in processing the whole results page as the content will only dilute the search phrase relevance.
Any site that allows user input, whether search engine, networking site or forum is a security risk from malware and viruses. Any ad network can be infected by ads that download malware and viruses. Search engines have been used via redirects to the final destination or sending people to spoofed pages that looked like the original site. Banners have long been used to download malware and distributed via ad networks. Even 3rd party tracking scripts which have been used for years have become infected with malware.
Any site visited should be considered a security risk. User input just increases the risk.