What I hate is that there is nothing that tells me explicitly what is going on. If I am about to search for a gift for my wife, I don't want to have wheels spin

What I hate is that there is nothing that tells me explicitly what is going on. If I am about to search for a gift for my wife, I don't want to have wheels spinning in the background figuring out what to do with my search. I already get paranoid with G+ and find myself logging into every social media app to make sure nothing was posted (e.g. "Nick was searching for flower shops in Ontario"). I don't mind the option, but there should be a liberally visible indicator/switch and defaulting to off would be nice.