Search more securely with encrypted Google web search

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html

by yanw • 16 years ago

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BigZaphod2• 16 years ago

When I go to https://www.google.com/ it redirects me to http://www.google.com. That's some amazing security right there! :P

yanw2• 16 years ago

Probably the encrypted version hasn't been deployed yet to the datacenter you're hitting.

BigZaphod2• 16 years ago

You're probably right, but why post a blog about it announcing it to the world as if it is available before everything is synced up and ready? It makes Google look sloppy, IMO.

rosser• 16 years ago

https://ssl.scroogle.org

epi0Bauqu2• 16 years ago

Also https://duckduckgo.com

TheAmazingIdiot• 16 years ago

hello, I'm a blackberry user. I do like the site.... When I'm using a computer. However there's placement errors on the BB scripting side.

Highlighting over the buttons puts the button text over the link (search, I'm feeling ducky, etc.). If I knew of a way to send a screenshot, I would. If you need basic sanity checking so DDG looks pretty on the BB, email me at jwcrawley at gmail daught com

logic• 16 years ago

Interestingly, the SSL version doesn't have the Pac Man game. ;)

benologist4• 16 years ago

This is like Facebook saying store your data more securely by only posting it on their site.

chaosmachine3• 16 years ago

This is like stopping your ISP from sniffing your search queries and reselling them.

benologist4• 16 years ago

Except that data's still available on all sites you land on, to all the 3rd party analytics platforms people use, all the ad networks people use, and to everything you pass through on your way to a destination.

As the duckduckgo guy puts it: "When you search on Google, not only is your info stored, but also when you click on a link, your search terms are passed on to that site via the Referer header. A lot of sites use this information to tailor content and advertising to you specifically. Your searches also show up in analytics tools, which people use for SEO and other tracking purposes. This information leakage creates legitimate privacy concerns."

And what's to stop ISPs logging the plain text https urls you access anyway?

eli• 16 years ago

It's a good idea, but I question how useful it really is. So, my search results page for "naughty things" is encrypted, but all the links on it aren't.

MikeCapone4• 16 years ago

If you want to protect more than your searches from someone listening in, you'll have to get an encrypted VPN.

chaosmachine3• 16 years ago

The cache also works over https now:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XhZJrK...

But the "cached version" links on the secure search results still point you to http for some reason.

qjz• 16 years ago

On the Mac, I edited /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml, changing http to https where appropriate. Now the builtin Google search plugin uses SSL system-wide (and so does the autocomplete, AKA suggest queries feature, if you edit that link, as well). Hopefully, Firefox will make this the default.

MikeCapone4• 16 years ago

Great. I don't think it's going to change anything in my life (though you never know), but I really like it just on principle.

MikeCapone4• 16 years ago

More details here:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...

MikeCapone4• 16 years ago

If you want to add it to your chrome URL bar:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s

Search more securely with encrypted Google web search

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