There's a much simpler narrative than "company devotes substantial resources to monitor all google searches": The person was apparently a very recent former em

There's a much simpler narrative than "company devotes substantial resources to monitor all google searches": The person was apparently a very recent former employee. It's pretty standard procedure to log out a recently departed employee's accounts and revoke all of their permissions, and it's not a big stretch to assume some sort of simple audit of their recent activity. Did they have any partially-completed work sitting on their desktop? Were they still logged in to the billing system? Did they have anything checked out? I can imagine an IT guy at a smallish company sitting down at the console and finding a browser window still open with a handful of work tabs, and a tab of google search results, and noticing the google search results are a little bit suspicious.