[antonyl]

Hmm. Good point; agreed it's likely just getting ingested by online system. I guess I would've thought that Google would drop non-logged-in requests from going into their online system, or that at least they would do so for incognito requests from their own browser. Haha. How naive I am!

[jeffbee]

Incognito, as is explained thoroughly on the new tab page, exists to stop the browser from leaving data on your computer.