From now on, you can protect your Google searches from eavesdropping as Google enabled HTTPS on its search engine.
A few notes on their blog indicate that it is still a 'beta' option:
- only the web search is SSL encrypted (image or map searches, for example, are not)
- slightly slower loading times to set up encryption
- your data and searches are not hidden from Google (if you read between the lines, that means that if law enforcement requests information about your search behavior, Google can still provide it) only from others that might eavesdrop on your connections
