How Browsers’ Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing [pdf]
From 4.5.1<p>&gt; A surprising 56.3% of participants believed that even while a user was logged into a Google account, their search queries would not be saved while in private mode. The large majority of participants (144) believed this to be the case
because private mode does not save search histories, conflating the browser’s local history with Google’s.