Get refering Google search query

[Yarin]

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?

[Sebastiani]

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.

[tabstop]

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.

[Yarin]

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.

Thanks.