Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 22, 2010 @02:19AM from the helping-you-hide-your-pokemon-obsession dept.

alphadogg writes "People who want to shield their use of Google's Web search engine from network snoops now have the option of encrypting the session with SSL protection. In the case of Google search, SSL will protect the transmission of search queries entered by users and the search results returned by Google servers. Google began rolling out the encrypted version of its Web search engine on Friday. 'We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It's a helpful addition to users' online privacy and security, and we'll continue to add encryption support for more search offerings,' wrote Evan Roseman, a Google software engineer, in an official blog post."

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Re:Chrome/Firefox address bar still not SSL tho. by quantumplacet · 2010-05-22 03:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Firefox lets you add keyword searches (so does Opera, don't think Chrome does). Just go to https://www.google.com/ (annoyingly https://google.com/ redirects to http://www.google.com/ right click in the search box and click add keyword search. I've tested and confirmed that this will use SSL.