
The web is experiencing another growth-spurt/growth-pain moment. Late last year, Google,
in an attempt to make the web a safer place, introduced an algorithm that seeks out the SSL certificates of websites. This Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standardized
protocol that allows for a secure and private session between you and the website you are viewing. This Spring Google announced that they will
begin favoring sites that use SSL in their search engine. By default, penalizing sites that don’t. Read On