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Old 17-05-2010, 03:26   #17
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Re: Google to offer encrypted search

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Originally Posted by Stuart C View Post
I don't think there is a legitimate reason that the average consumer would want https protected searches.
I can think of one good reason. You are doing web searches on a public/work computer and you want privacy. Let's hope they enable post requests on HTTPS instead of get requests that display the query string in thr URL. Otherwise I agree, it does seem completely pointless.
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