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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by jcrites on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:27AM (#19857513)
For the curious, here is the about page for encrpted.google.com from 2010:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100524223335/http://www.google...

> Note that SSL search does not reduce the data that Google receives and logs when you search, or change the listing of these terms in your Web History

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by codyogden on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:28AM (#19859092)
The page you linked to is for "Google Search over SSL" and is not the same thing.

Searches performed at encrypted.google.com (not just google.com with SSL) were not available in any user-facing capacity in one's Google account. It did not store the search queries in user-facing history, and did not use those terms for future search suggestions.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by icebraining on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:41AM (#19859236)
That's curious. I can't find any statement from Google saying that this was intended, though; seems more an oversight than a feature.
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