One of the best places on the Internet to find information about a company
— such as a litigation adversary — is the company’s own Web site. But while a visitor researches a company, the company may be researching the visitor, revealing more than the researcher would like. In addition, the company may at any time change or remove information on its Web site that may be most valuable to the researcher. This article discusses the information that Web site owners can learn about visitors to their site, and shows ways to see older versions of Web pages that may have been changed or removed.
Web sites routinely collect certain information from visitors to maintain statistics and to enhance the visitor’s experience on the Web site. Much of this information may be sent from the visitor’s computer to the Web site without the visitor’s knowledge, and may reveal more than the visitor expects. A Web site owner can learn many things about visitors through “cookies” and environment variables such as the IP address.
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