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:Scroogle is better by BikeHelmet · 2010-05-22 21:43 · Score: 1, Redundant

Yes, but Scroogle has recently been shut down by Google, so this is their alternative.
They weren't "shut down" - the creators were too lazy to redirect their queries to another page.
Big difference.
After the beatdown they got for crying wolf in that last slashdot article, I'm surprised someone didn't know that.