Search Engines and HTTPS Privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation bring news of another step forward for people looking to browse with better security – search engine Duck Duck Go will supply secure links where possible.

We have talked before about Google launching its SSL based site to give users extra security while searching, but this is in some cases undermined by the results of those searches not pointing to SSL enabled URLs.

If you visit Duck Duck Go’s secure SSL site and, for example, search for ‘wikipedia’ then the resulting rankings page will not have the normal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia at the top, it will show Wikipedia’s secure page – https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia

As mentioned on the EFF blog, people searching for medical conditions, etc. this can give extra peace of mind.

More information can be found on the Electronic Frontier Foundation Blog.

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