Google英文官方博客今天发文称，Google将默认使用SSL加密，以更好的保证用户隐私。
目前Google搜索中支持SSL加密方式的有Web搜索、图片搜索和除地图搜索之外的其他搜索模式。当然，由于计算机需要首先与Google建立安全链接，所以使用SSL加密方式的搜索体验可能比传统模式的搜索会稍微慢一点。
Google官方原文地址：http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html
We’ve worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger security standards. For example, we made SSL the default setting in Gmail in January 2010 and introduced an encrypted search service located at https://encrypted.google.com four months later. Other prominent web companies have also added SSL support in recent months.
As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we deliver. As a result, we’re enhancing our default search experience for signed-in users. Over the next few weeks, many of you will find yourselves redirected to https://www.google.com (note the extra “s”) when you’re signed in to your Google Account. This change encrypts your search queries and Google’s results page. This is especially important when you’re using an unsecured Internet connection, such as a WiFi hotspot in an Internet cafe. You can also navigate to https://www.google.com directly if you’re signed out or if you don’t have a Google Account.
What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you search from https://www.google.com, websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive information about each individual query. They can also receive an aggregated list of the top 1,000 search queries that drove traffic to their site for each of the past 30 days through Google Webmaster Tools. This information helps webmasters keep more accurate statistics about their user traffic. If you choose to click on an ad appearing on our search results page, your browser will continue to send the relevant query over the network to enable advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and to improve the ads and offers they present to you.
As we continue to add more support for SSL across our products and services, we hope to see similar action from other websites. That’s why our researchers publish information about SSL and provide advice to help facilitate broader use of the protocol. We hope that today’s move to increase the privacy and security of your web searches is only the next step in a broader industry effort to employ SSL encryption more widely and effectively.
译文如下：
在过去几年里，Google 一直通过使用SSL协议来不断增强服务的安全性，同时也在鼓励整个行业提高安全标准。比如 从2010年1月份开始，我们将SSL作为了 Gmail 的默认设置，4个月之后又在开通了一项加密搜索服务。让我们感到高兴的是其他互联网公司如Facebook和Twitter也在近几个月内增加了对 SSL加密的支持。
由于搜索这项服务逐渐变得个性化，Google越来越认识到保护个人搜索结果的重要性。我们决定让登录用户的搜索体验变得更好。在接下来几周内，当你使用登录帐户访问 Google搜索的时候，如果页面跳转到 https://www.google.com （注意是https），请不要感到奇怪，在这个页面下的搜索内容和结果会因为使用SSL加密而变得更安全。这对于那些使用不安全网络链接（比如 Wifi）的用户来说相当重要。如果用户没有登录，你 https://www.google.com 来使用加密搜索也不会有任何问题。
对于那些需要获取 Google 搜索结果的网站，SSL加密意味着什么呢？当用户通过加密方式进行搜索的时候，被访网站会知道用户是来自 Google，但无法得知用户搜索的关键字。通过 Google网站管理员工具，网站主可以看到在过去一个月内1000条浏览量最高的关键词，这样能更准确的了解他们流量的统计信息。但是如果用户点击搜索页面上的Adwords广告的话，用户搜索的内容还是会传送给广告主，以便他们来判断广告的效果并改善广告内容。
我们在逐渐的让更多的产品和服务支持SSL的同时，也非常希望能有更多的网站与我们一道行动。这也是我们的研究人员发布关于SSL的研究成果和为让协议更方便更广泛的使用而提供建议的原因。我们希望通过今天的举动能推动整个互联网行业在更大范围里更有效的部署 SSL 协议。
很不错的，这样在天朝会好点的。