Google Accelerates Internet With Public DNS Service

[hyperian]

Opening up a potentially vast source of business intelligence, Google on Thursday introduced a public Domain Name Service (DNS) resolver, a service that allows Internet users to rely on Google rather than their ISP to take them to the Web sites they wish to visit.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/web_services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000551

 

[rurapente]

next step in world domination

 

[w1z4rd]

One step towards a tinfoil hat.

 

[MadMailMan]

They're going to start buying the toilet paper companies next. Everbody needs Interwebz and to take dumps.

 

[DJNgoma]

They're going to start buying the toilet paper ad space companies next. Everbody needs Interwebz and to take dumps.

Corrected

 

[AnomalyNexus]

Surely the ISP will always be at least on hop closer to the user than google & thus have better latency?

 

[bwana]

Is this any different to OpenDNS and will it too become inaccessible when we're limited to local only access?

 

[ambo]

Is this any different to OpenDNS and will it too become inaccessible when we're limited to local only access?

Its exactly the same idea. The latency to the Google servers is around 400ms from ZA. Not exactly an improvement over our local resolvers which respond in under 100ms.