Google offers encrypted Web search by default

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  1. elapsed

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    Yup, it's great. :) Now I wish they would do it for country specific sites so that when people want Google as their homepage I can set the encrypted version.
     
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    It's already been made fairly obvious that one side effect of SSL is helping google out with referrer info.

    IDK if that's been discussed here yet.
     
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    Can anyone confirm this? I still have http.
     
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    What's to confirm? https://www.google.com/ there you go.
     
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    The article says it's on by default for logged-in users.
     
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    type in google.com

    Did you redirect? Confirmed.
     
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    Well there's the issue. It's going to .ca, which is not default https.
     
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    Not -www.google.ru either.
     
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    It's not on anything else.
     
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    @J_L "The article says it's on by default for logged-in users"

    Set your home page to https://encrypted.google.com or use noscript to force it. That way you don't even need to be signed in to use it.
     
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    The subdomain "encrypted.google.com" was used in essence to "beta" test it. There is no need to use it now that you can use google.com with https.
     
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    https://encrypted.google.com is for when you're signed out/ don't have a Google account.

    http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=173733

    Furthermore:

     
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    I'll do something even better, change the search plugins and Firefox keyword.URL.
     
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    Great idea. Would you be willing to share how to do it, please? Thanks.
     
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    If anyone is still interested in the difference it's explained here:

    hxxps://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/websearch/how-do-iusing-google-search/thwLsim5NEk

     
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    It sounds like using the encrypted.google subdomain would generally be better for privacy.
     
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