Today Google announced that they're now offering search over SSL via the url https://www.google.com - great news for those looking for a bit more privacy as far as the transfer layer is concerned. If you'd like to take advantage of Google SSL as your default search engine in Chrome, it's relatively trivial to add it by navigating to the following menu: Chrome > Preferences > Manage (Default search) > + (click the plus sign at the bottom of the window). Enter these settings in the resulting prompt, displayed in the image above:
Name: Google SSL
Keyword: ssl.google.com
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Click OK to confirm the new search engine. Select the newly created "Google SSL" entry in the list of engines and click Make Default to finish the process. Now any search queried through the address bar in Chrome should default to Google SSL.
Name: Google SSL
Keyword: ssl.google.com
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Click OK to confirm the new search engine. Select the newly created "Google SSL" entry in the list of engines and click Make Default to finish the process. Now any search queried through the address bar in Chrome should default to Google SSL.