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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by chrisbroadfoot on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:00PM (#2122579)
Yep - if you don't want people seeing your bieberqueries, you should use SSL Google:

https://encrypted.google.com/

... or if you're super paranoid, disable sending referrer in your browser.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by sp332 on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:55PM (#2122702)
Firefox (at least) will still send referrer info when you navigate to a https: site from encrypted Google. You can change this in about:config by changing network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer to false.

Source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferr...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by VMG on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:27AM (#2123411)
This.

Its silly to rely on trusting the search engine provider to be secure, better be secure on the client side.

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