Posted this here 4 years ago, the number of jobs has been steadily increasing ever since, and this only captures a portion of the market. I figured it was time to "show it" again.
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I know people love it over here but from what I've read it seems to be more about the openness of the creator that the product itself.
Okay. here's a question: how would the world look like today had Android started based on Plan 9 instead of Linux?
If by any chance you're a English-speaking employer on the area, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to send you an invitation to post your jobs.
Google doesn't care who is it rewarding, google cares about the users that search, they've said that multiple times. And yes, people with better resources build on average better things than people without them.
> I am not against HTTPS. Just saying that rewarding HTTPS is not enough. It's worst actually, some will set it up quickly and badly just for the extra ranking points and not the actual security it should be providing.
Even then, still 10 times better than plain text HTTP so my whole office can see what I'm browsing with a simple console command.
> What is the point of HTTPS if I receive my password by mail ?
Your email inbox should be accessed via TLS, it's something up to you. And while you don't control the origin (nobody can without breaking compatibility) intercepting a message in transit like that if not exactly something most people I know can do. While getting that password over HTTP is almost trivial for anyone sitting around me.
> As for enforcing, HTTP2 (that is SPDY) IS enforcing HTTPS.
The day you can only see a website via SPDY then I would call that enforcing it. Yes if you want to carrot (performance) you have to pass through the hop (security), nobody forces you to eat the carrot.
> IMO, Good HTTPS where it matters is more important then Crappy HTTPS everywhere just is ridiculous and could even be dangerous thanks to a false sense of security.
I really can not get which scenario you are picturing here. Setting it up is not rocket science.
The points you mention are in fact indicators that someone has put care and resources to make their site work more securely, which says a good thing about the site, which google rewards with some points in their algorithm. Makes perfect sense to me that this will somewhat improve the quality of their results. Would you also complain about google using fast response times as a signal because that "forces" people to pay for better servers?
About your security point, google can not do that without loosing 50% of its customers, I really don't understand what that has to do with the rewarding HTTPS being good or bad. Looks like a red herring.