in my opinion Google is just doing everyone a favor. They are going to regulate power distributed down the row. Everyone has a fair chance at making a good deal and at a little tax price. Adam is right when he said Google is King of the internet at the moment. Just like the new BitCoin craze as well, it can't be regulated because there is no king of BitCoin, however I feel that it's a good step in the right direction for online currency. Paypal is great but the tax % on each sale is too much. Ebay gets a piece of the profits, not giving anyone a chance. If you want to sit with the best you've gotta dress like em', act like em, speak like em. Or revolt , and a humble kings jester isn't going to get too far with a complaint when the king has the praetorian guard around him.

Hosting used to be so much more expensive, but eventually it became reasonable then even cheap.
Now our hosting companies can get those rates right back up again as we all scramble to add SSL to our sites.

The main statement here is not who is right or wrong, it is that we have been given a positive example of how to be ranked better in Google. We do not have to worry about if this word or that word will rank well, we simply have to install a SSL on our server and serve protected pages and we get a boost in ranking.

That for one is a tip I will take to the bank.

You can take it to the bank, but that doesn't guarantee better business. God has a funny way of teaching us lessons, doesn't he?

@Rod...where can I get an SSL for $10/year ??

I'm not revolting. Just ranting as I conform so that I'm not thrust into the dungeons.

I do not like it either. But there is nothing I can do about it.

@gunsmoke:

https://www.namecheap.com/lp/ssl-certificates-special.aspx?gclid=CL60s93njcACFU4F7AodV0wAPg

I'm blaming this on all the hacked Wordpress sites out there!

I just hope that once SSL becomes the norm, we don't have to pay up for SSL Premium 'cause standard SSL isn't secure enough.

@Rod. Thanks. Looking into it now ...