Google shares your search history? (possibly a browser bug)

I'm trying out Ubuntu on my old desktop computer. It seems I need to install some extra files for the wireless adapter to work. So on my laptop, I a did a Google search for "linux firmware wireless mn-730", and opened one of the results pages in a new Firefox window (like I normally do).

The results page that I opened (http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/7944-42-does-wireless-adapter-work-linux) included a section at the top which displayed this:
You have searched for "xxxx" . You might be interested in the following threads: ....

Where "xxxx" was a totally different search phrase, unrelated to Linux, which I had entered in Google earlier today! The page then displayed links to other pages on the site which were presumably in some way relevant to my previous search. Another section of the page included "xxxx" again - "helpfully" pre-filling an entry field with it so that I could post my question on their forums.

I was particularly miffed by this, as the search string "xxxx" in question included part of my home address.

So apparently this website is not only able to see the search phrase I used to find the website, but *also* a totally different search phrase I previously had entered in Google. This disturbs me. This is surely considered an invasion of privacy, is it not? Since when does Google share your search history with other websites? Has this been going on for a long time?

I have NoScript running, blocking most scripts. The only Google site I see marked as allowed on this page is "googlesyndication.com".

Maybe this is a bug. It seems reasonable that my actual search string "linux firmware wireless mn-730" should have been passed to the page, but perhaps my prior search string was passed by mistake.

Update: Even when I open that tomshardware.com webpage using the above link, it *still* displays my prior Google search string! Closing all my browser windows and forbidding script access for googlesyndication.com didn't get rid of it either. Clearing my cookies didn't get rid of it. It only went away after clearing my Cache, Active Logins, and Site Preferences.

I then tried to recreate the scenario of having the page display a previous search phrase, but it hasn't happened again. So it must be a bug somewhere.

nanoo nanoo

This week of vacation hasn't been at all relaxing for me. But I did get a lot of things done, and the house looks better - fewer piles of "to-do" stuff laying around. I still have stuff that I wanted to get done, which I didn't. I wish I had another week off. Or month. Or year.

Maybe I'll take another week off next month.

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I ended up baking the poppyseed rolls too long. They still taste ok, but not very special.

It would be bad if my place of employment suddenly started random drug testing, with all the poppyseeds I've been eating.

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I'm glad that the NY legislature passed the gay marriage bill. While looking over the list of states that now allow gay marriage, I was surprised and impressed to see that Iowa is among them.