In the last few days, Google added the search over SSL option. A long overdue option in our book, but one that fits into Google’s simple but complicated philosophy. All you need to do is go to https://www.google.com (or any other TLD you’d like) and tadaaa…. you’ve got yourself a secure tunnel from your PC to the Google servers.

Why should you care about this option? There might be moments when you’d like to be certain of your privacy – hotel or airport wireless connection for example, this makes sniffing your Google activities a lot harder.

Here’s Google itself bragging about it.