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Google has added SSL encryption to its primary search engine. Today, with a blog post, the company announced that netizens now have the option of establishing a secure https connection when searching google.com. To use the service, you must explicitly visit https://www.google.com (Notice the extra "s"). At time of writing, the …

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  1. Jamie Kitson

    Good News

    Glad because this means their street view cars won't be able to eavesdrop on your search traffic.

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  2. Matt Piechota
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    Search Redirection

    Also should handle this:

    http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16534

    Mgmt Summary: ISP hijacks all search traffic to Google and sends it to their ad-ridden Yahoo-based search page. You have to opt-out on a web page (may just be a cookie or something equally stupid) in order to stop it. This happens even if you don't use the ISP DNS servers.

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