Do you want to have a secure and private search experience? Google Encrypted SSL Search is here for you. Just visit https://encrypted.google.com and do your normal Google Search.
If you are not aware about SSL, it is a protocol that helps provide secure Internet communications for services like web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data transfers.
Using Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party.
This will be really useful if your computer got infected with malware or a keylogger, a third party might be able to see the queries that you typed. Right now only Google web search is available over SSL and this won’t work for Google Images or any other sites.
Unfortunately, recently, Google Instant is still in Google Encrypted SSL Search.
Very good information. This is great thing from google that Encripted google ssl search. This will help people from being intercepted by bad element of their queries and privacy. Its a fantastic job from google and hoping google ssl will come for image search also