Has anyone else been pushed to the encrypted Google search?

[AaronSchinke]

This morning I was redirected to https://encrypted.google.com. Thought it was interesting. Google making a play to get some trust back?

[Tompt]

Might this also interfere with the previous evidence of Bing using google as a ranking factor?

Just a tiny thought.

[CogentElliott]

Hi there was a big announcement regarding this. I'm hoping for a seomoz blog update with some analysis of what this means!

Here are the links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/10/accessing-search-query-data-for-your.html