Google: Encrypted Search Engine Gets a New Domain
By Gina on June 30, 2010 | Computer Security, web address, encrypted, domain, search engine, Google
Finally Google moved its encrypted search engine to a new web address – encrypted.google.com. It may look like uncomfortable domain that differs from its original one but new domain gives organizations the option to block the site for their users without locking them out of other Google services.
Firstly, this new address was prompted to schools and universities to block encrypted search engines for their students. Educational institutions always are the first ones that usually ban encrypted search engines. In that way they protect their web content filters that aren’t invincible by students.
Google confirmed that having this new address to which search engine is moved it is now possible to block access to it without affecting other Google services.
Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said in an official blog : „We are continuing to explore longer-term options such that we could return encrypted search to https://www.google.com without introducing issues with school content filters.“
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