Search Securely with Google

30 May, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 10 Comments

How many of us travel and use wireless networks at hotels, airports or even the local Starbucks or McDonalds? Well when you do searches on Google or any other search engine, what you search for is easy prey for sniffers and people browsing the same wireless network to pick up and see. So if you are looking to hide your Internet searches from the masses or search the web securely then this should be of peak interest to you.

Enter Google SSL Search, at the beginning of the week Matt Cuts posted his thoughts on Google SSL Search and highlighted it to the masses.

With searching on https://www.google.com you can ensure that all of your searches are encrypted and this adds another layer of privacy when doing searches. Combine this with Incognito Mode of Google Chrome or the Private Browsing Mode of FireFox for even an even more secure search experience.

Now go out there and hide your Internet searches while on an unencrypted Wi-Fi network.

-Dragon Blogger

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raymund@HP toner cartridge

This is my first time to hear about Google SSL. I should begin using it in public places with free WiFi just to be secured.

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Aury (Thunderdrake)

While I don't trust encryptions, I can still say it's a fair sense of security. That and google is known to be wickedly emergent and competitive in the IT market. There's no encryption that cannot be broken. But enough to scare the typical noob away. :p

Bionic

thanks justin, since the very first day i implemented it's use & google made quite a few changes lately wich is not quite obvious towards the regular users, but this is one of them, on the other hand it can also protect thoose comitting crime using google, google also made changes to "cache" "moore text" "alerts" and limited amount of certain search queries, extended queries, queries often related to crime.. wich is all good of course

Asad@ Blogger

I think this feature is not yet available for Google Image search.Well.....interesting move by Google to make searching more secure.I think that privacy concerns are growing for both facebook and google recently/
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Geoff Dodd@Residual Income Perth

Australia calling too, Perth here. Google always preempts with proactive innovations and search with an SSL layer is, for some, a much needed security measure in these public wifi zones. Thanks for this picturesque blog. Inspiring stuff. G.
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Klaus @ TechPatio

A useful tip when on unencrypted wireless. I wouldn't use it if the wireless is already encrypted, my searches are not that top secret that I need multiple encryptions :)
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BlazingMinds

Such a simple trick to do, I wouldn't of thought of using https when searching with google, thanks for the heads up Justin ;)
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PC Trainer

Hi,

I have recently switched over to Chrome due to the new release of version 5. I can say that being secure online is a key concern and with the introduction of SSL I will be slightly less concern about my searches being detected. I am hoping to do a review of the Chrome browser soon on my thoughts, thanks for your post.

Bye.. from the other side of the world (Australia)
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dragonblogger

I have been using Google Chrome for a while, the extensions for it are pretty slick but like FireFox they can slow your browser down if you install too many. Thanks for the visit.

Alex@Zahnbleaching

This is actually really helpful for me since I am traveling a lot with my beloved notebook. Didn't know that others can invade my privacy this easily if they are in the same network.

I am always surprised about the new stuff out of the Google Labs. Thanks for the recommendation!
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