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This reminds me of the time I was at work doing searches for
I wonder what IT thought. It was for serial ports, I swear!
(IT probably didn't care much about this compared to the time that another employee was soliciting prostitutes using his work email.)
We usually think of people in the past as prudes but they were actually saying stuff like "These connectors look like they're having sex, let's officially name them based on that."
If your search engine used HTTPS (which nearly all websites do now, but it's possible that you made these searches before that was common) then IT would have no way of knowing what searches you were making.
They could have a browser extension to track their searches.