What’s the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
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Back in the day, numerous websites used to use HTTP. Yet back in 2014, Google recommended that sites switch to HTTPS as a ranking signal. Up till then, only eCommerce websites bothered to use HTTPS. As motivation for changing to HTTPS, Google revealed that it would be providing HTTPS sites