Encryption on the Internet is still largely used on financial and shopping sites and for site log ins and neglected by most Internet sites. Using encrypted connections to access websites aids against network eavesdropping and a set of other online attacks. It does also protect the user’s privacy by revealing less information in Internet connection logs and on the local computer systems used to access those websites and services.
Google recently announced that they would role out an encrypted version of Google Search next week. The blog post was largely about the WiFi data collection that made news in the last days.
The fact that Google will enable https search is mentioned in one sentence in the large article explaining the WiFi fiasco.
Earlier this year, we encrypted Gmail for all our users, and next week we will start offering an encrypted version of Google Search
The url https://www.google.com/ currently redirects to the standard Google search. It is likely that Google will make another post once the new feature has been enabled.
It will likely be only a matter of time until other search engines and websites (Facebook anyone) will start offering https for all connections to their sites as well.
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Also quite likely that that security agencies and other paranoid officialdom will be taking an inordinate interest, as they tend to be alarmed by those of us with a perfectly normal desire for privacy.
I’ve used lxquick as my main search engine for some time because they don’t store IP addresses or logs.
You can also arrange for your google.com searches to automatically go via the GoogleSharing proxy http://www.googlesharing.net and other google tracking methods can be defeated via http://www.optimizegoogle.com