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A Google Web Search Help forum thread asks how you can make Google SSL search your default search provider in Chrome. It is a good question that is a bit hard to answer in the forum, so I thought I do a blog post with screen captures to explain the process.
Step 1: Right click in the URL bar and click on "Edit search engines...":
Step 2: Click on the plus sign at the bottom of the manage search engines pop up and a new form will come up:
Step 3: Fill out the form as follows and click "okay"
Note: This is the URL you need https://www.google.com/search?%s
Step 4: To make this new search engine the default, after you click okay, click on the Google SSL search engine within the manage search engines window and click on "Make Default":
There you have it, Google SSL search as your default search engine in Chrome.
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
Comments:
Carter Cole
06/02/2010 02:00 pm
but now no referrer data passes to any of the sites you visit from google... might be good to keep your sites analytics clean but if everyone starts using this there will be no more oh i got 360 visits from Google sent by 32 keywords. this will kill analytics even before AJAX SERPs do
Alan K'necht
06/02/2010 03:46 pm
I'm still not sure why this option is even being made available. It's not like we're hiding data from Google. No we are only hiding data from the sties we visit via Google and impacting their web analytics team ability to optimize a web site based on what visitors are looking for. I personally hope the secured search goes away soon and doesn't gain any momentum. I've gone into more depth on my blog: http://bit.ly/cqZnCX
Daniel
06/10/2010 05:07 pm
The URL in your note and in your screenshot are different.
Avi
09/20/2012 07:19 pm
The URL in the screenshot worked for me, but not the one in the note
san
10/01/2012 01:38 am
Perfect! I was trying to fix this for the longest time, and these are the only instructions that have helped. Thank you!
RoB
02/05/2013 10:44 am
thanks - been looking for this for a while
thanks
06/18/2013 08:38 pm
THANK YOU!!!!!