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Yep - if you don't want people seeing your bieberqueries, you should use SSL Google:

https://encrypted.google.com/

... or if you're super paranoid, disable sending referrer in your browser.



Firefox (at least) will still send referrer info when you navigate to a https: site from encrypted Google. You can change this in about:config by changing network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer to false.

Source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferr...


This.

Its silly to rely on trusting the search engine provider to be secure, better be secure on the client side.




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