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It's been this way for a quite a while though, now the only difference is that SSL is enabled for a larger number of people. Also adding the search terms to the
by anaphor 13y ago
It's been this way for a quite a while though, now the only difference is that SSL is enabled for a larger number of people. Also adding the search terms to the url would defeat the whole purpose of using SSL for search at all.
- dangrossman 13y agoIf the whole purpose of these changes was to hide the search term from website owners, then turning on SSL everywhere wouldn't be required at all. That was already accomplished with the redirection between the SERP page and the clicked link, which was put in place before SSL was turned on everywhere. There are other purposes. Like preventing governments from recording your long-term search history without a warrant. Frustrating that purpose requires SSL but doesn't require wiping the search term from the referrer as well. It would never be transmitted across an encrypted->unencrypted connection transition per the HTTP spec.