to the user who may then choose to submit that query anonymously rather than through their user account furthermore the privacy filter program 134 of the preferred embodiment can submit fake queries that are spoof queries to counteract previous queries in the search history that may be preventing new queries from being identified as safe when the trend is of a personal nature or in the user 39 s list of trends to be blocked then the trend is presented to the user as indicated at a block 316 checking whether the user selects that the query be submitted to the search engine is performed as indicated at a decision block 318 when the user selects that the query be submitted to the search engine then the query is returned as safe as indicated at a block 320 when the user selects that the query not be submitted to the search engine then the trend is added to the list of trends to block as indicated at a block 322 then the query is returned as unsafe at block 314 referring now to fig4 an article of manufacture or a computer program product 400 of the invention is illustrated the computer program product 400 includes a recording medium 402 such.