TIFU on a work screen share with a technology glitch for the ages

Alright, so this is a pretty bizarre situation all things told. I’ve always used two browsers at work, one with my personal logins and one with my work logins, but typically speaking I’m not a person with anything to hide and occasionally I do screen-share off the personal browser. Yesterday, I was sharing my screen with the 2 women who work for me and I opened up a new web tab to look for a document we were going to use. After about 5 seconds of trying things in the browser autocomplete, I noticed a feature at the bottom I had not seen before in Chrome that says “Sites you visit often,” and at the top was listed a link to a specific tweet containing pornographic content. I closed it up quickly and have no idea if they read it or not. The title was such that unless they Googled it, it wasn’t inherently obvious, but my employees are smart and may have done just that if they saw it.

So this is where the story gets a little unbelievable. This was, in fact, a link I clicked on once in the past six months or so off a video game Reddit community that I obviously shouldn’t have been clicking from my personal computer, but how did it end up as my “most visited site”? As best as I can tell, this is what happened. That same day, I also noticed that Google was no longer autocompleting Twitter the same as it used to, now prioritizing “Twitch.tv” over Twitter until you got further down. Whatever Google must have done to change its recognition of links must have somehow changed every single Twitter press over my entire history into a reference to this single Tweet, as I saw when I investigated this later and had probably thousands of references to this tweet in my history over 3 months. I swept the entire rest of my history for anything else that may have had pornographic content and found zilch, so the odds of this happening in this way feel astronomical…and yet.

I’m absolutely still flipping out about this. They may not have seen anything if they were tuned out, or might not have taken the extra step to Google it, but the uncertainty is killing me and I have no idea how to act around them next time I’m in the office. I’m extremely worried that my subordinates may be uncomfortable working with me now, and I know that no one would believe my explanation above. I’m not particularly worried about the HR implications, as there was nothing actually pornographic displayed and I’ve never accessed anything like that on my work computer (save more possible Google History shenanigans). In the meantime, I’m in the process of doing what I should’ve done from the start and moved everything work-related out of my personal browser altogether, and will never share from that again.

I truthfully don’t know how to deal with this, my stress is off the charts since it happened yesterday morning and I can’t focus on anything. Seven years in, this is the best job I’ve ever had and it’s not a stretch to say I am loved by the administration for my performance and personality, while also having good team dynamics with my colleagues, and I’m terrified that it’s all ruined.

TL;DR Google incorrectly just told my 2 female coworkers I supervise that my most visited site on the internet is a 10-second animated sex gif tweet and I have no idea how to handle the situation.