Heck, it’s even a running stand-up joke. “Ask your wife if you can look up something on her phone. Google “How to kill your husband” and hand it back to her. Congrats, you’re safe for another month!
I turned to my partner and joked "You better not be huffing any chloroform in the near future."
That's the light side of it, but the scary side of it, and why these sort of "fishing expeditions" are so dangerous, is that statistically it's probably the case that if you're keywords are pretty specific (googling a person's name or address in a very time limited window), that 90-95% of the time if someone popped up they were doing something suspicious - but that means 5-10% of the time you'd get a false positive. Given revelations of people who have been released fro death row for rather flimsy evidence, I don't have confidence that the authorities would do much besides try to find someone guilty once they got a hit.
Every now and then I want to Google something a bit dubious, but decide against it, just in case. I mean, I've no intention of murdering anyone or anything like that, I'm just just a curious soul.
Not so fast there buddy. Best check what autocompletes for "how to dispose of a b..." and "best place to b...".
Sure, google's search results suck nowadays, but she could always just go to the library.