Windows 10: Google: Here’s to more HTTPS on the web!

Brink · Nov 5, 2016

Security has always been critical to the web, but challenges involved in site migration have inhibited HTTPS adoption for several years. In the interest of a safer web for all, at Google we’ve worked alongside many others across the online ecosystem to better understand and address these challenges, resulting in real change. A web with ubiquitous HTTPS is not the distant future. It’s happening now, with secure browsing becoming standard for users of Chrome.

Today, we’re adding a new section to the HTTPS Report Card in our Transparency Report that includes data about how HTTPS usage has been increasing over time. More than half of pages loaded and two-thirds of total time spent by Chrome desktop users occur via HTTPS, and we expect these metrics to continue their strong upward trajectory.

Percentage of pages loaded over HTTPS in Chrome
As the remainder of the web transitions to HTTPS, we’ll continue working to ensure that migrating to HTTPS is a no-brainer, providing business benefit beyond increased security. HTTPS currently enables the best performance the web offers and powerful features that benefit site conversions, including both new features such as service workers for offline support and web push notifications, and existing features such as credit card autofill and the HTML5 geolocation API that are too powerful to be used over non-secure HTTP. As with all major site migrations, there are certain steps webmasters should take to ensure that search ranking transitions are smooth when moving to HTTPS. To help with this, we’ve posted two FAQs to help sites transition correctly, and will continue to improve our web fundamentals guidance.

We’ve seen many sites successfully transition with negligible effect on their search ranking and traffic. Brian Wood, Director of Marketing SEO at Wayfair, a large retail site, commented: “We were able to migrate Wayfair.com to HTTPS with no meaningful impact to Google rankings or Google organic search traffic. We are very pleased to say that all Wayfair sites are now fully HTTPS.” CNET, a large tech news site, had a similar experience: “We successfully completed our move of CNET.com to HTTPS last month,” said John Sherwood, Vice President of Engineering & Technology at CNET. “Since then, there has been no change in our Google rankings or Google organic search traffic.”

Webmasters that include ads on their sites also should carefully monitor ad performance and revenue during large site migrations. The portion of Google ad traffic served over HTTPS has increased dramatically over the past 3 years. All ads that come from any Google source always support HTTPS, including AdWords, AdSense, or DoubleClick Ad Exchange; ads sold directly, such as those through DoubleClick for Publishers, still need to be designed to be HTTPS-friendly. This means there will be no change to the Google-sourced ads that appear on a site after migrating to HTTPS. Many publishing partners have seen this in practice after a successful HTTPS transition. Jason Tollestrup, Director of Programmatic Advertising for the Washington Post, “saw no material impact to AdX revenue with the transition to SSL.”

As migrating to HTTPS becomes even easier, we’ll continue working towards a web that’s secure by default. Don’t hesitate to start planning your HTTPS migration today!
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Source: Google Online Security Blog: Heres to more HTTPS on the web!

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Ethan B. · Nov 5, 2016

Google Play Store

Hey crazy4katz,

Google Play Store, as far as apps, are only compatible with the Android platform and not with Windows 10. Alternatively, Google Play Music and Google Play Movies & TV can be run on a web browser, but they do not have their own apps (except for Google Play Music
which has an unofficial app on the Microsoft Store called gPlayer).

Here's the whole Google Play Store (most services can be easily accessible through your web browser):
Google Play

Here's Google Play Music (web browser only):
https://play.google.com/store/music?hl=en

Google Play Music has an unofficial music player on the Microsoft Store called gPlayer here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/gplayer...

Google Play Music & TV here:
https://play.google.com/store/movies?hl=en

Hope that helps.

Ramesh Srinivasan · Nov 5, 2016

make cortana use google search instead of bing

Here is a method that works fine if you have Anniversary Update installed. Make Cortana Use Default Browser and Google Search
to Open Web Search Results

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