{"id":18586,"date":"2011-05-26T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:22:41","slug":"encrypted-google-ssl-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/encrypted-google-ssl-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Encrypted Google SSL Search for More Security, Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want a secure private search session? Use <strong>Encrypted Google search over SSL <\/strong>and you get a complete\u00a0encrypted search link between your computer and Google.\u00a0We all go to Google.com daily, but how many of us have tried Google SSL Search. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/encrypted.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/encrypted.google.com<\/a> to try this Google search.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"google-ssl-seach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-ssl-seach.png\" border=\"1\" alt=\"google ssl seach\" width=\"309\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, remember that many\u00a0other Google search products like Google Images and Google Maps are not currently available over SSL and will not work as desired.<\/p>\n<h3>Benefits of Encrypted\u00a0SSL Google Search<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secure_Sockets_Layer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSL<\/a> is short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol that encrypts\u00a0search queries and search traffic, such that it can&#8217;t be read by third parties (like ISP&#8217;s), thereby\u00a0providing secure Internet communications for web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging etc.\u00a0SSL search typically does not send\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP_referrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">referrer<\/a> information to any HTTP links you visit (but browser will still send referrer information to HTTPS links).<\/p>\n<p>Remember SSL works only on on Google web search (not Google Images and Google Maps). You&#8217;ll continue to see integrated results like images and maps, but clicks will take you out of encrypted search mode. This will also not bypass Google logs for your search queries (as shown in your web history), nor will it prevent\u00a0malware like installed keyloggers from letting third party catch your search queries.<\/p>\n<h3>Confirm Secure Connection<\/h3>\n<p>If you see the browser bar you will note the url begins with <strong>https <\/strong>(and not http). Also note a <strong>locked icon<\/strong> beside the url in all modern browsers which will display the encryption details of the site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18588\" title=\"encrypted-google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/encrypted-google.png\" border=\"1\" alt=\"encrypted google info\" width=\"304\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/encrypted-google.png 304w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/encrypted-google-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will you make encrypted Google Search your homepage now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a secure private search session? Use Encrypted Google search over SSL and you get a complete\u00a0encrypted search link between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}