Every now and then, I go into a website (through a Google search) that gives my exact search query in their content. Obviously, this information is being passed by Google to the destination page, but how?
Every now and then, I go into a website (through a Google search) that gives my exact search query in their content. Obviously, this information is being passed by Google to the destination page, but how?
Simple. Google keeps a list a providers and the types of keywords associated with them or whatnot, and if it encounters certain search terms, it sends a request directly to the providers, and returns the results to your browser.
I'm thinking your answer is in your title: the referer header tells where you came from, and if you look at a Google URI you can see your query right in there.
I don't know why I didn't think of that. I didn't know the referring string contained get parameters, but I still should've thought of it.if you look at a Google URI you can see your query right in there.
Thanks.