diff --git a/htroot/index.html b/htroot/index.html
index bf2ee65d9..fa366b331 100644
--- a/htroot/index.html
+++ b/htroot/index.html
@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@
   <center><img src="/env/grafics/kaskelix.png" align="middle" alt="Kaskelix - the YaCy logo"></center><br>
   <center>#[promoteSearchPageGreeting]#</center><br>
 
-  <form action="yacysearch.html" method="get">
+  <form action="yacysearch.html" method="get" name="searchform">
   <input type="hidden" name="display" value="#[display]#">
   <center>
-
   <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
     <td colspan=2>
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@
    <input type="hidden" name="prefermaskfilter" value="">
    <tr align="left">
     <td></td>
-    <td><a href="/index.html?searchoptions=1&display=#[display]#">more options...</a></td>
+    <td><a href="/index.html?searchoptions=1&display=#[display]#" onClick="this.href='/index.html?searchoptions=1&display=#[display]#&handover='+document.searchform.search.value">more options...</a></td>
    </tr>
    ::
    <tr align="left">
diff --git a/htroot/index.java b/htroot/index.java
index cce17671a..704bad584 100644
--- a/htroot/index.java
+++ b/htroot/index.java
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ public class index {
         int searchoptions = (post == null) ? 0 : post.getInt("searchoptions", 0);
         final boolean indexDistributeGranted = sb.getConfig("allowDistributeIndex", "true").equals("true");
         final boolean indexReceiveGranted = sb.getConfig("allowReceiveIndex", "true").equals("true");
+        final String handover = (post == null) ? "" : post.get("handover", "");
         if (!indexDistributeGranted || !indexReceiveGranted) { global = false; }
 
         final String referer = (String) header.get("Referer");
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ public class index {
         String promoteSearchPageGreeting = env.getConfig("promoteSearchPageGreeting", "");
         if (promoteSearchPageGreeting.length() == 0) promoteSearchPageGreeting = "P2P WEB SEARCH";
         prop.put("promoteSearchPageGreeting", promoteSearchPageGreeting);
-        prop.put("former", "");
+        prop.put("former", handover);
         prop.put("num-results", 0);
         prop.put("excluded", 0);
         prop.put("combine", 0);