I don't think they're changing the search algorithm, just linking to https rather than http if it's available for a particular site. Regarding speeding up HTTP

I don't think they're changing the search algorithm, just linking to https rather than http if it's available for a particular site. Regarding speeding up HTTPS, I run HTTPS on several sites and there isn't an issue with speed on either end. This is probably what you are looking for though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper http://www.chromium.org/spdy http://www.chromium.org/spdy For Apache: https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/ https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/