Brett_Tabke
msg:4199351 | 2:46 pm on Sep 9, 2010 (gmt 0) |
take a screen shot if it happens again.
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FranticFish
msg:4199713 | 10:29 pm on Sep 9, 2010 (gmt 0) |
OK, got one - [the-infidel.co.uk...]
Just tried in IE and Firefox to go to Google.com, got redirected to Google.co.uk - I have toolbar installed in both these browsers.
In Chrome, I've tried three times hours apart to go to Google.com - each time today it's taken me to the https version.
I first saw the 'Jazz' interface on Chrome as standard (i.e. permanent) before I saw it using other browsers.
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grelmar
msg:4200453 | 9:12 am on Sep 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I just got this a few minutes ago. Went to google.com and got the encrypted beta site automatically.
screenie [canadianvote.ca]
No toolbar in this browser.
Note the 9-11 remembrance ribbon on the screen (for date reference).
I went to play around with the search as you type feature. One thing I noticed was that search as you type was disabled when I was getting the SSL Beta site.
Also, the sub-domain changed once I hit enter to get search results, and it became:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=(typical keyword blat)
You can use the https://encrypted.google.com/ url to play with the SSL site reliably if you want.
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brycen
msg:4255250 | 5:16 pm on Jan 19, 2011 (gmt 0) |
My wife was silently defaulted to google SSL search yesterday. The end of referring site data is near (See [webmasterworld.com...] ).
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Robert Charlton
msg:4255540 | 3:51 am on Jan 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I'm curious whether this happens when you're on a Wi-Fi connection or in a situation that Google might have reason to believe is insecure.
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TheMadScientist
msg:4256290 | 5:44 pm on Jan 21, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I've had it happen randomly on the same connection Robert, so my guess is it's in 'test mode' and N% of users are sent there... I've landed there both logged in and not logged in, on the same connection, so IMO connection / security is not part of the reason, and neither is logged in/out.
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FranticFish
msg:4256466 | 11:53 pm on Jan 21, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Second that, I've been on a fixed IP and correctly geotargeted since August and always surf logged out.
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Robert Charlton
msg:4256570 | 9:00 am on Jan 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| so my guess is it's in 'test mode' and N% of users are sent there... |
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I'm sure it's in test mode. The question is, what are they testing? Whether you'll try to delete the s in https? ;)
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TheMadScientist
msg:4256573 | 9:43 am on Jan 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| The question is, what are they testing? |
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Hmmm, well you made me think a bit and my guess is: Tracking.
ADDED:
Why would I need to search securely? I can't think of a reason.
Why would they want me to search securely? Tracking.
If they could find a way to identify a browser via cert and/or key they don't need the cookie.
ADDED x 2:
If I remember correctly, a while ago there was something about them re-inventing the https wheel to make it faster ... I wonder how 'personalized' they made it?
I could be mistaken, but I'm fairly sure I read something about them coming up with a new way to do https a while ago.
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