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on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:48PM
from the there's-gotta-be-a-downside-to-this dept.
from the there's-gotta-be-a-downside-to-this dept.
According to a post on the Google Online Security Blog, beginning in January 2017 Google Chrome will begin flagging all sites that use traditional HTTP rather than HTTPS for passwords or other sensitive information as "insecure". It also indicates that Google plans to eventually start flagging ALL traditional HTTP-only sites as "insecure". While HTTPS has always made sense for truly sensitive information, a pure HTTPS web does have implications for legacy tools - essentially if anyone is not using the absolute latest of one of the "big three" web browsers, they will always potentially be just one security update away from being locked out of the web.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday September 12 2016, @12:20AM
None of the engines were good, hence why Google was able to get a foothold. It was just as bad as the other search engines, but it was fast and had a larger database of sites that were cataloged more frequently. It used to be a bit of a rite of passage going from search engine to search engine and none of them were really any good.
I've found Bing to be about as good as Google. Most of the time when I'm on Google I find the first couple pages to be full of things that are irrelevant, or are full of largely worthless resources there to capture clicks for ad revenue like how to and expert sex change and what have you.
I find that unless I happen to know what I'm looking for and type in the exact correct phrase that I wind up spending a lot of time manually screening out shit matches. As often as not I find that unless I choose the exact correct set of synonyms for what I'm looking for that the site is expecting that I wind up going through a huge amount of irrelevant items. And God help you if you're searching for something and don't know consecutive words. Last time I checked Google didn't even have a keyword for near, which meant that if the words appeared anywhere in the page in any order, even if they were literally the first and last word in the document, it would still match.
But really, none of the search engines are particularly good. I give DDG a lot of credit for the basic things like not distorting the results trying to give me what I think I want rather than what I want.
Perhaps it's the stuff I'm looking for, but I've yet to find a search engine that really gets it right and I think that Google has been very bad for the search engine market as there's been very little forward progress in the last decade on search technology. Most of the improvements have been in dealing with SEO strategies that put garbage on the first place. And that wouldn't be a problem if there were more search engines available.