Yahoo, keeping with its CEO Marissa Mayer’s promise from 2013, has begun plugging security holes that it discovered ahead of its self-imposed Q1 2014 deadline, starting Wednesday.
In a nutshell, now all searches done through the internet giant’s home page will automatically be routed through a secure server just like Google does, to help prevent any kind of eavesdropping by outsiders. Though all this will be invisible to the end user, the process will not cause any kind of detrimental performance along the way.
Currently the automatic redirection through to a secure server is only happening for users in US, Japan, France, Germany and UK. But it won’t be long before Yahoo implements the secure search feature across all regions.
Yahoo said that the service rollout is a part of the company’s ongoing plans announced at the end of last year. The blog post read “As announced in November 2013, Yahoo is moving towards using https as the default for searches. We are currently in the process of rolling this out. [Our] Tumblr post [about it]”.
“Yahoo will encrypt all information that moves between our data centers and offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014. This effort will extend to all of our properties”.
[Source: Marketing Land]
