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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
And this is where they are crossing the line. Now they are openly admitting to penalizing pages arbitrarily to advance their own agendas unrelated to quality factors. It's not Google's position to FORCE people to adopt a certain technology under the threat of penalizing them with financial implications. What's next? In two years will they be pushing their own proprietary technologies?
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In John Mueller's replies to his blog post linked by the OP he gives a clear indication of the particular path they are going to take, and the particular type of high end encryption they will require at some point. Google acquires an average of 10 patents a day
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"Google says it now controls more than 51,000 patents and patents pending."
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Find the ones related to SSL & beyond, that's where it's headed.