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Google Testing Waters For Safer Encrypted Web Search

Google Testing Waters For Safer Encrypted Web Search
Possibly due to the growing privacy and security and security reasons being faced by Facebook lately, Google was quick enough to implement measures to avoid same kind issues. Google is presently testing a new encrypted interface for its web search. You can now test Google’s encrypted web search by simply going to https://www.google.com instead of the usual http://www.google.com

According to Google, when you perform search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted and secured channel is created between Google and your browser. This will protect your search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by any third party on your network. To see the difference of encrypted search with the regular Google web search, you’d see that encrypted search has a modified logo, the one with a locked icon that signify that you are searching using SSL

Coming to search results, Google’s encrypted search is somewhat limited also as it does not include the usual Google web search products. Image search Maps are not covered in encrypted search since they don’t support SSL yet. In addition, search experience on this website might be slower than the regular Google web search since SSL connection require extra time to set up the encryption between the browser and the remote server. Google promises the same search results though.

Another important point to notice here is that Google’s encrypted search still gets and maintains search data. It does not reduces the data which is sent to Google but just hides those data from third parties who are searching it.

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