Google updates the location of their encrypted search engine

Google updates the location of their encrypted search engine

Google recently launched the encrypted edition of their search engine.

It was hosted at: https://google.com.

Google has now moved this search engine to a new location: https://encrypted.google.com

Google said that they decided to take this action on requests made by some school network operators who block encrypted searches on their network.

The company said:

The site functions in the same way. However, if school network administrators decide to block encrypted searches on https://encrypted.google.com, the blocking will no longer affect Google authenticated services like Google Apps for Education.

We are continuing to explore longer-term options such that we could return encrypted search to https://www.google.com without introducing issues with school content filters.