diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 74d35ba..e51e7c3 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ url: http://yoursite.com
 title: My Octopress Blog
 subtitle: A blogging framework for hackers.
 author: Your Name
-simple_search: http://google.com/search
+simple_search: https://www.google.com/search
 description:
 
 # Default date format is "ordinal" (resulting in "July 22nd 2007")