diff --git a/web/src/pages/index.tsx b/web/src/pages/index.tsx
index fa51182..98ec3b3 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/index.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/index.tsx
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ const Home: NextPage = () => {
         query: string,
         query_source: "search" | "followups",
         disable: () => void,
-        enable: (followups: Followup[]) => void,
+        enable: (f_set: Followup[] | ((fs: Followup[]) => Followup[])) => void,
     ) => {
 
         // clear the query box, append to entries
@@ -406,8 +406,6 @@ const Home: NextPage = () => {
                 },
             });
 
-            console.log(res);
-
             if (!res.ok) {
                 enable([]);
                 setLoadState({state: "idle"});
@@ -417,11 +415,11 @@ const Home: NextPage = () => {
 
             const data = await res.json();
             
-            console.log(data);
-
             setEntries([...new_entries, {role: "error", content: data.data.text}]);
 
-            enable([]);
+            // re-enable the searchbox, with the question that was just answered
+            // removed from the list of possible followups.
+            enable((fs: Followup[]) => fs.filter((f) => f.pageid !== query_id));
             scroll30();
 
         }
diff --git a/web/src/searchbox.tsx b/web/src/searchbox.tsx
index 1cc9e43..bbe2096 100644
--- a/web/src/searchbox.tsx
+++ b/web/src/searchbox.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export const SearchBox: React.FC<{search: (
         query: string,
         query_source: "search" | "followups",
         disable: () => void,
-        enable: (followups: Followup[]) => void,
+        enable: (f_set: Followup[] | ((fs: Followup[]) => Followup[])) => void,
     ) => void,
 }> = ({search}) => {
 
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ export const SearchBox: React.FC<{search: (
     // because everything is async, I can't just manually set state at the
     // point we do a search. Instead it needs to be passed into the search
     // method, for some reason.
-    const enable = (followups: Followup[]) => {
+    const enable = (f_set: Followup[] | ((fs: Followup[]) => Followup[])) => {
         setLoading(false); 
-        setFollowups(followups);
+        setFollowups(f_set);
     };
     const disable = () => {
         setLoading(true);