Internet law: Your good post will be ruthlessly torn apart. Agreement is drivel. The best you can hope for is a slightly different point which happens to agree.
Btw, I agree with you, and I think this phenomenon is dumb.
Oh no, I commented on it directly. By the way I noticed you comment on Hacker News, you should probably stop using table-based layouts on your websites.
Wow Seriously? You don't say.
Seems the irony escaped you: announcement was made on a Google site that forces (i.e redirects from HTTPS) you to read it over HTTP.
If you read closely enough it refers to all of Google, not just "the search engine team" or (Google - Blogspot).