Google to Encrypt Search by Default

Google to Encrypt Search by Default (allthingsd.com) by

butterflyrider (42), (0.02) on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 10:09:03 PM

Google said today it will soon use SSL encryption by default to improve security for signed-in search users, following SSL usage across the industry in Gmail, and on Twitter and Facebook. (You can see when a company is using SSL when a URL starts with "https:") When SSL is used, Web site owners will get less information about what search terms visitors used to find them. Google said the move is a recognition of the increasingly customized and personalized nature of search.