Google Privacy with SSL

Google launched their Google search SSL Beta, which is the same as regular search except all the information that you enter after hitting submit, now gets encrypted before it gets sent to Google.  Google decrypts the search query information from you, and then returns the search results back to you through a secure socket layer (SSL), which allows all that data to be encrypted.  The purpose of this would be to prevent people from finding out what you are searching if they sniff the WiFi packets, intercept your wired connection, as well as keep the government agencies from being able to monitor your searches, unless they have access to Google’s databases.

If you see a green lock next to the URL and it says https on it, you know that you are browsing that website through a secure socket layer (SSL) and the information shared across the Internet between you and the website is encrypted.