This fix is probably just changing

http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=templates/googleform.tmpl;h=9468e062ab19a381f6dadb339480796efae827f5;hb=HEAD#l2

to

<form method="get" action="//www.google.com/search" id="searchform">

I changed it to use https unconditionally - there seems little point in doing Google searches in clear-text when Google supports https, even on unencrypted wikis. done --smcv