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It's worth noting that the !g bang redirects you to encrypted.google.com, it's more secure but results are often different from a regular www.google.com search.

• sd8dgf8ds8g8dsg 9y ago
  www.google.com uses encryption too these days. You are linking to a ~5 year old thread that is discussing the state of things well before google switched everything over to ssl.
  • thisacctforreal 9y ago
    For a while I believe the difference was specifically that encrypted.google.com exclusively used PFS SSL cipher suites
• inetknght 9y ago
  > linking to encrypted.google.com not only is not necessary but it prevents local search results from being displayed. e.g. no google.ro search results, only google.com I can only see this as a good thing. If I want local search results, I'll add local qualifiers like "USA", "Texas", "Houston"
  • stefantheard 9y ago
    That was an odd one to read, being in Houston. I thought somehow you added wildcards that were auto filled with the users location, I then realized that I'm an idiot.
    • zeven7 9y ago
      You could also do searches for yourself like "Stefan" and "Theard" and even type your password in like "* * * * * * * *".
• kyrias 9y ago
  A lot of JavaScript things have been buggy for me with encrypted.google.com as well. For example the Google timer cards and such often just won't start at all, while they'll work fine on the regular google.com.
• l1feh4ck 9y ago
  It's a sad fact that regular google results are sometimes better than encrypted.google.com. It is like regular google knows what "I" want.
• thomastjeffery 9y ago
  The difference isn't the encryption, but the fact that Google tracks your searches to give you "better" results.