Search Phrase Not Provided

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Every report for every search engine returns "Phrase Not Provided"
What changes are needed so we can see the search phrases in our reports?
Running the current version of WLExpert on IIS

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Michael

This item is shown for SSL search queries as referrers from Google SSL and other search engines don't include information on search phrases. Unfortunately at the moment almost all search queries are shown as not provided as the result. You can find more information on it in the this article.

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dave riba
Quote from Michael

This item is shown for SSL search queries as referrers from Google SSL and other search engines don't include information on search phrases. Unfortunately at the moment almost all search queries are shown as not provided as the result. You can find more information on it in the this article.

What about Bing and the others?

WLE shows not provided for every search.

everyone doing the same as Google?

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Michael

Yes, Google were the first that started to hide the search queries and then other search engines followed...