That was a most excellent example Jay. I see what the issue is now. This could be related to work Google did to plus shortly after launch. Buzz and now Google+ are https only. Google cooked up a URL processer that took clicks to external content like article links, and massaged the referrer be readable as http to show where the visitor came from. Sanitized of any personal data I assume. The problem they were trying to fix was no one knew any users were coming from Buzz clicks. They fixed that in +. I am thinking something of the same might fix the search issues. It could also be that a Googler saw Lauren's post and the debate has already started. -steve On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it.
(or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite some time already)
Note that Lauren Weinstein has just put out a Privacy Digest posting noting that the referer behavior differs between https://encrypted.google.com and https://www.google.com in a way that implies that, again, someone at Google may not have gotten the Don't Be Evil memo...
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000906.html
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