Why is Google encrypting searches?

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billb wrote:
https://support.google.com/websearch/ans...3733?hl=en



whereas anyone might be privy to your initial request of google for information regarding your personal predilection for pron and bomb-making enlightenment, only google and the NSA will be privy to what google gifted you.
shatter and scatter your platters before Big Brother wants to confiscate your hard drive.

Interesting. I wonder why they didn't always do this.