It looks like the basic concept is a secure VPN - you sacrifice having Google see everything you do to ensure that other people on whatever wifi network you are on cannot (wifi sniffing is easy and widespread, and many passwords are transmitted without hashing).
Om Malik,
GoogleRumors and
Tris Hussey write about this.
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