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Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
- BigZaphod 16y agoWhen I go to https://www.google.com/ https://www.google.com/ it redirects me to http://www.google.com http://www.google.com. That's some amazing security right there! :P
- yanw 16y agoProbably the encrypted version hasn't been deployed yet to the datacenter you're hitting.
- BigZaphod 16y agoYou're probably right, but why post a blog about it announcing it to the world as if it is available before everything is synced up and ready? It makes Google look sloppy, IMO.
- rationalbeaver 16y agoYou'd be surprised at how often they do that. It happens with virtually every announcement.
- ggrot 16y agoI guess either you announce it after everyone's already seen it anyway or you announce it before it's released everywhere.
- yanw 16y agoThey say that they "Are Rolling out" not that it's "Immediately available", it takes a while for it to go live on a million+ servers.
- rosser 16y agohttps://ssl.scroogle.org https://ssl.scroogle.org
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoAlso https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com
- TheAmazingIdiot 16y agohello, I'm a blackberry user. I do like the site.... When I'm using a computer. However there's placement errors on the BB scripting side. Highlighting over the buttons puts the button text over the link (search, I'm feeling ducky, etc.). If I knew of a way to send a screenshot, I would. If you need basic sanity checking so DDG looks pretty on the BB, email me at jwcrawley at gmail daught com
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThx. This doesn't look very easy, but for reference :) http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/taking-screenshots-of-your-blackberry-8868/ http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/taking-screenshots-... Next time I'm with someone with a blackberry, I'll take a look.
- niyazpk 16y agoYou could try using a blackberry simulator: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators.jsp http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators...
- logic 16y agoInterestingly, the SSL version doesn't have the Pac Man game. ;)
- benologist 16y agoThis is like Facebook saying store your data more securely by only posting it on their site.
- chaosmachine 16y agoThis is like stopping your ISP from sniffing your search queries and reselling them.
- benologist 16y agoExcept that data's still available on all sites you land on, to all the 3rd party analytics platforms people use, all the ad networks people use, and to everything you pass through on your way to a destination. As the duckduckgo guy puts it: "When you search on Google, not only is your info stored, but also when you click on a link, your search terms are passed on to that site via the Referer header. A lot of sites use this information to tailor content and advertising to you specifically. Your searches also show up in analytics tools, which people use for SEO and other tracking purposes. This information leakage creates legitimate privacy concerns." And what's to stop ISPs logging the plain text https urls you access anyway?
- chaosmachine 16y agoHTTPS doesn't send referrers to the sites you visit, so no one will ever see your query string, or even know you were coming from Google. "And what's to stop ISPs logging the plain text https urls you access anyway?" URLs aren't sent in plain text over HTTPS.
- benologist 16y agoCool. But I still think it's mostly a hollow offering since they're the ones collecting and profiling us the most (or perhaps tied with Facebook).
- pavs 16y ago
- eli 16y agoIt's a good idea, but I question how useful it really is. So, my search results page for "naughty things" is encrypted, but all the links on it aren't.
- MikeCapone 16y agoIf you want to protect more than your searches from someone listening in, you'll have to get an encrypted VPN.
- chaosmachine 16y agoThe cache also works over https now: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XhZJrKdSAZMJ:ycombinator.com/ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XhZJrK... But the "cached version" links on the secure search results still point you to http for some reason.
- qjz 16y agoOn the Mac, I edited /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml, changing http to https where appropriate. Now the builtin Google search plugin uses SSL system-wide (and so does the autocomplete, AKA suggest queries feature, if you edit that link, as well). Hopefully, Firefox will make this the default.
- MikeCapone 16y agoGreat. I don't think it's going to change anything in my life (though you never know), but I really like it just on principle.
- MikeCapone 16y agoMore details here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=173733&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...
- MikeCapone 16y agoIf you want to add it to your chrome URL bar: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s https://www.google.com/search?q=%s