The search giant announced in a on June 25 that its encrypted search service from to .

The , which gives a user the option to use SSL to prevent packet sniffing, was moved to accommodate "better serve our school partners and their users," Dave Girouard, president of Google Enterprise says in the .

Previously, school administrators -- or anyone else, for that matter -- who wanted to block encrypted searches at would also block Google authenticated services such as Google Apps for Education.

Why would schools want to block encrypted searches? Using the service "creates an obscured channel between a user's computer and Google," which allows students to bypass a school's content filter, Girouard said.

That makes it harder to block adult content, a policy of many schools.