Noel Chiappa wrote: > I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results > that used plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to > push people to switch to HTTPS (this was when everyone was > hyperventilating over the Snowden revelations). Given the > near-ubiquitous use of HTTPS these days, I'd have thought that piece > of 'information credit engineering' by our tech overlords was past its > 'sell by' date, and now serves primarily to block people from finding > the material they are looking for (as here).
I often include the search term "site:bitsavers.org".
