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Old 17-05-2010, 11:06   #20
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Re: Google to offer encrypted search

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Originally Posted by Frank View Post
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.
Even if you are doing a web search on a public or work computer, as soon as you go to an HTTP site, the security offered by the HTTPS search page is removed. Unless they are going to protect their cached results as well, and you only use those.
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