? on Google Encrypted Search

[buddy m]

I was checking out my visitors stats today and came accross this

"Google Encrypted Search
Google deliberately strips out keyword search
information for logged in users.
More info on their official blog announcement.
Note: You can hide these searches."

Does anyone know what this means?

Thanks

 

[rak]

First time I am ever seeing that!

I am wondering if thats there ways of stopping spam sites, from creating pages to match search terms on the fly - eg those pages you end up to and it has every sort of PPC and Revshare shopping item to match your search.

 

[Bonus Paradise]

Here is information about this .... Official Blog: Making search more secure

 

[baldidiot]

This has been around for quite a while and mainly applies to people who are logged in to google when doing searches. The user then by default uses https not http, and so the referrers aren't passed - meaning that keyword information isn't identifiable (regardless of what stats software you use).

The official line from google is that they did it to provide a more secure environment to their users, although the tin-foil hat brigade think it's to force you to use GWT for stats. I don't really care either way as the end result is the same...

It's a pain for sure, but there's nothing you can do about it - so try not to let it worry you.

 

[honestgaz]

oh that httpS crap has been driving me crazy for a while now.. I always forget to delete the S when im typing in my browser and hit an error page. grrrr