website question

[Shadowthief]

Sorry for sounding thick, if im researching something for an essay im doing in the archives of a newspaper website can other people (who havent got access to my computer) see what articles i was reading or what keywords i was searching on, ie looking at the same site as me from a different pc also would the newspaper web site operator be able to see what individual pc's are reading or what keywords are searched

[Kerplunk]

Most likely your IP address will be logged by the website, possibly with details of which pages you visited. It is also possible that they could log which keywords you searched for.

[RATTER15]

Just the owners of that website I would imagine, and its not likely they would be able to track it to you, they would hold maybe key words, pages visited as Kerplunk mentions.

[Shadowthief]

Thanks for that, im doing an essay, but wasnt sure if other people could see what i was researching/searching & didnt want anyone else doing the same essay as me ,nicking my ideas or source archive material

[scuzzball]

Yeah, sure........

[Shadowthief]

Scruzz if you mean yeah sure im doing an essay i am,i only asked a simple question& only wnted a simple answer, i thought that was what the Answerbank was for?

[Kerplunk]

Just ignore him. He'll go away then.

[stephanie289]

You protests make it seem all the more suspicious by the way

[Shadowthief]

I've just read it back stephanie, point taken in hindsight i think i could have worded it better sorry scruzz i see what you mean.