How does Bing know the terms that I had recently Googled in the past month?

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After I typed "a" into Bing, a list of terms that I had recently queried in Google appeared in purple.

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How does Bing know what terms I recently Googled?

Google Chrome on Mac Lion... Hey, you're right. I can't reproduce this effect in Firefox, Opera, or Safari. Weird. — David Faux, Jun 9, 2012 at 18:49
Ah, the purple list of Googled terms in Bing disappeared after I cleared my autofill options in Chrome. Interestingly, just clearing cache and cookies did not remove the list. — David Faux, Jun 9, 2012 at 19:17
That seems to be possibly a usage of local storage on browsers or cookies from where they could fetch recently searched terms. — deej, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:38
This is also because the form field <name> is q just like Google's. Doesn't look like they are taking advantage of local storage, just taking advantage of all the browsers autofill options on form field values of same name. — Rebecca Dessonville, Jun 10, 2012 at 21:50

mvark · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-11 08:27:51Z

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answered Jun 11, 2012 at 8:27

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