Google On The Plan To Lunch App That Will Dectect Unsecure Sites

Google wants to make the Internet safer, and it won't be shy about pointing fingers at sites that don't meet its standards.

In an announcement published to the Google Security Blog on Thursday, the search giant said users of its Chrome browser will be warned when accessing non-secure websites, starting January 2017.

Users won't be blocked from accessing non-secure sites, but they will be alerted when visiting an address that doesn't use an encrypted connection.

Websites with a "HTTPS" added before the URL indicate an added level of security to normal web browsing, compared to visiting a non-secure "HTTP" connection. This guarantees users are reaching the website they intend to visit, and the extra security protects them against hackers.

"When you load a website over HTTP, someone else on the network can look at or modify the site before it gets to you," Google explained in the statement.

Currently, the search engine indicates that HTTPS — note the "s" on the end — connections are secure with a green lock icon (broken HTTPS connections feature a red lock). However, Google (GOOG) does not currently flag HTTP connections as unsafe, though users can click on the information tab on HTTP sites to learn more about the connection.

The next-generation version of Chrome, called Chrome 56, will start to mark HTTP connections as "not secure."