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by pragmatic 5762 days ago
Check your search history: http://www.google.com/history/
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Search history is one of Google's creepier features – I disabled it awhile ago.

Not that I suspect it helps anything, but at least if someone finds my computer or something, that data isn't two clicks away.

FYI, search history is one of the parts of the account you have to put your password in again to view. So it should be safe from prying eyes.
Prying eyes on your side of the connection you mean.
https://www.google.com/
Which terminates on the other side where everything is plaintext again. https is a transport level protocol, so it protects you from people (trivially) snooping on your data in transit but anybody at google with enough clearance has access to that data.
If that's what you are worried about then it seems like you'd have trouble using the internet in general.
It's creepier than you think - ever since it began making suggestions, long before Google Instant, Google has been quietly logging things you didn't search for.