Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service
ReadWriteWeb — Google just launched the Google Public DNS. Just like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS will allow users to bypass their ISPs DNS servers. DNS servers are, in many respects, the backbone of the Internet. They allow you to type www.senate.gov into our browsers and then turn them into machine-readable IP numbers like http://156.33.195.33/. Google's argues that it wants to give consumers an alternative to their ISP's DNS services in order to market the Internet "faster, safer and more reliable." Sponsor ...

Google’s speed mission continues with Public DNS
The Next Web — Google seems to be on a mission to speed up the internet at the moment. Today that continues with the launch of Google Public DNS. DNS is the “switchboard” of the web, making sure that URLs get you to the right place. Each time you load a web page lots of behind-the-scenes look-ups take place. Google reckons it can do it faster and better than the current servers out there and has launched it’s own version that’s build for speed. In addition to being faster, Google is claiming that Public DNS is more secure. It has been ...

Now Google Wants To Control Even More Of Your Internet
Silicon Alley Insider — ... called Google Public DNS . What is it? A free service that replaces your Internet provider's "domain name system" -- which is basically the stuff that servers do to get your browser to Google when you type in "www.google.com." (It's more complicated than that, but that's not something we need to get into now. Google explains ...

Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here’s What That Means
TechCrunch — ... Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against malware type sites. The benefit to Google – tons more data, and lots of potential revenue. ...

Videos: How to Setup Google DNS on your Computer
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog — ... , Google today launched their own public DNS service that they say will make your web-surfing experience “faster, safer and more reliable.” ...

Google Public DNS
MAKE Magazine — Google Public DNS - handy... just remember 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - my ISP's DNS is always slow, this one and OpenDNS are better. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Computers | Digg this!

Google launches free public DNS
Macworld — ... . So it makes sense that the company now wants to control one of the most fundamental systems in all of Internetdom. On Thursday, the don't-be-evilest company on the Internet unveiled Google Public DNS . ...

Speed-up your surfing with Google's Public DNS
Download Squad — ... Don your tin foil hats, ladies and gentlemen. Take the following news with a pinch of salt and admire their noble privacy policy. Now brace yourself: ...

Google Adds DNS To its List of Services
WebProNews Feed — ... browsing experience. Our research has shown that speed matters to Internet users, so over the past several months our engineers have been working to make improvements to our public DNS resolver to make users' web-surfing experiences faster, safer and more reliable. You can read about the specific technical improvements we've made in our product documentation and get installation instructions from our product website. Privacy Google says Google Public DNS complies with ...

Google promises faster Web with launch of Public DNS
Between the Lines — ... this morning, Google announced the release of a public DNS resolver called  Google Public DNS , one of the things that the company is doing as part of its  ...

Google Launches Public DNS Resolver
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... The fears of Microsoft taking over the world can be put safely to rest. It seems that Google is the one to worry about. Google provides us with a search engine, email, web apps, phone service, and whatever the heck Wave is. (You can even spy on people from space.) Now, to further envelope you in the Google Internet experience, Google is making available a public DNS resolution service. ...

Google optimizes web browsing with public DNS
TG Daily — Google has launched a public DNS resolver in an attempt to speed up web browsing for the masses. According to company spokesperson Prem Ramaswami, the average Internet user performs hundreds of DNS lookups each day - with complex pages often requiring multiple DNS resolutions before loading. "Our research has shown that speed matters to Internet users. So, over the past several months our engineers have been working to make improvements to our public DNS resolver to make users' web-surfing experiences faster, safer and more reliable," explained Ramaswami. 
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Google Launches a Public DNS Service
Webmonkey — If you’ve ever looked at a common web technology, protocol, service or piece of internet infrastructure and wondered aloud if Google was working on its own better, faster version of it, rest assured that the answer is almost always, “yes.” The company announced Thursday that it is launching a public domain name system (DNS) service. On the Google Public DNS project’s website, Google tells us why DNS matters to everyone: The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the ...

Google launches DNS service for faster, more Google-controlled web
VentureBeat — ... , by the way.) Now, if you didn’t know that already, you may not be the audience for Google Public DNS, which it says is aimed at folks who are “web-savvy and comfortable with changing [their] network settings.” But if you’re interested, you can check it out and install it. once you do, Google Public DNS will handle all your domain translation as you browse the web. ...

Google Public DNS: Google DNS resolver released
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Public DNS to serve many DNS requests in round trip time it takes a packet to travel to our servers and back. Google Public DNS complies with DNS standards and gives user exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user's browsing experience”. To try it out: Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers. More info: Google Public DNS | Google Code blog ...

Google Create a Public DNS
Gadget Venue — ... To make the switch you simply need to change your DNS servers on your network card to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for your primary and secondary DNS settings. If you need instructions on how to do this then check out the Google page here. ...

Google Public DNS service not ideal for everyone
Ars Technica — ... mail.google.com, and the like. It would be rather time-consuming to follow the entire delegation chain from the root servers through the TLD DNS servers and the DNS servers for the domain in question every time a browser wants to load a page, an image, or send an e-mail. To avoid this, ISPs, many businesses, schools, and so on have caching nameservers. Those follow the delegation chain to find a name-to-address mapping the first time, but then cache this information for some time. Google Public DNS is a large set of those caching DNS servers placed around the world. ...

Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It's Not Going to Happen.
louisgray.com — Like many other early adopter technology watchers did today, I tweaked my computer settings to utilize Google's new Public DNS system - letting my Internet usage flow through Mountain View instead of through my cable Internet provider, ...

What Google Gains from Google Public DNS
901am — ... Enter Google Public DNS, which follows DNS protocols to the letter: absolutely no hijacking, even for error pages. If you misspell stuff in your address bar, or if the webmaster of your favorite site is a moron, then you get an error page and nothing else. If Google isn’t showing ads through Google Public DNS, then what do they gain from offering this service? Three things: ...

Google launches its Public DNS service
EXTRA-LAST — ... Stuff about it here, if you still care about customising settings and speed tests. Extra-Last is operated on default all the way these days. Life is too short to be conducting line speed tests all evening. Gets in the way of sulking in a different room from everyone else. ...

Google Public DNS Launched
I4U News — ... Posted on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:30:39 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr Google launches its own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS. This new service is part of the Google initiative to make the web faster. According to Google the goal of Google Public DNS is to benefit users worldwide while also helping the tens of thousands of DNS resolvers improve their services, ultimately making the web faster for everyone. You can try the Google DNS resolver using these instructions provided by Google . Posted on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:30:39 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

Webmasters Wary of Google Public DNS
Search Engine Roundtable — ... the launch of the Google Public DNS service, which is a free public domain name system. It is a lot like OpenDNS, but without any of the administrative controls for blocking sites or redirecting mismatched domains to a special landing page (which is where OpenDNS makes their money). Google's DNS IPs are pretty sweet, they are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. If you want to use it, here are the ...

Google Public DNS vs. OpenDNS: It's on!
TechBlog — ... . Those who fret about Google's increasing stash of its users' personal dataare going to be even more anxious about Public DNS, because it indeed logs information about what you're doing on the Web when you use it. Google has posted details about what it records, and what it then does with that information: Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as ...

Like Google DNS? Here's something better
Preston Gralla's blog — Google made much about it just released Google Public DN S, its DNS resolution service for speeding up Web browsing, but there's a better alternative, also available for free. ...

Google's DNS Resolution Service
Google Blogoscoped — ... Google Public DNS “is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider,” Google announced, and says that in order to give it a try you need to configure your settings to use the IPs “8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers”. Supposed improvements are speedier browsing and better security. ...

Murphy's Law: Do you Really Need Google? Benchmark Your DNS!
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... I'm sure many readers of Maximum PC--this one included--have jumped onboard the Google DNS ship, lured either by promises of increased speed versus one's own DNS server or a simple fascination at anything Google does. Fair, at least with the latter. Because it would be erroneous to just switch over to an alternate DNS server without any kind of assessment that what you're doing is actually the best-case scenario for your home or office setup. ...

How to Know When Your DNS Servers Are Failing [DNS]
Lifehacker — [image] Now that both Google Public DNS and OpenDNS offer alternative, public DNS services anyone can use instead of their service provider's DNS servers, the question is: How do you know if your DNS service isn't working properly and if you should switch? Smarterware reader Nicholas has the answer . He says: The easiest way to determine if your chosen DNS servers are down, you can use nslookup or dig command line tools. Open a command line prompt (Select "Start > Run" and type "cmd" on a Windows machine, "Applications > Utilities > Terminal" on the Mac) and ...

The reviews are in: Google Public DNS performance is... OK
Download Squad — ... . If you're fortunate enough to have an Internet provider like Verizon's FiOS that runs a finely-tuned, well-oiled network, Google Public DNS is simply not for you. If you're one of the (many) that has poorly-maintained DNS servers, the ...

Google DNS Service Warrants a Watchful Yawn
N/A — ... There has been a kerfuffle in the tech policy world in the past few days about Google's new DNS service offering.  The Domain Name System is the lookup directory system that seamlessly converts human-readable Internet addresses (like "www.cdt.org") into the actual numeric "Internet Protocol" addresses that are used to reach the computers designated by particular domain names (72.32.6.120 in the case of ...

Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer [Downloads]
Lifehacker — ... designed to speed up your browsing, but just because Google wants to be fast doesn't actually mean they're the best option for you. Namebench finds the fastest DNS server for your connection. After you download and fire up namebench, just click the Start Benchmark button to test out a handful of free public DNS services, from Google Public DNS to ...

Find the fastest DNS using a free tool
MacOSXHints.com — Since Google announced their new free public DNS service, there has been a lot of talk about the speed of various DNS. If you'd like to find the fastest DNS for your location, use the free Namebench, which tests well-known DNS as well as your regional DNS. I had been using OpenDNS, but it turns out my ISP's DNS is 53% faster! [robg adds: The test can take a while to run, and on my machine at least, I wasn't able to use the net while it was running -- lookups kept timing out until the test was over. The end result, though, is quite ...

Google’s synchronicity
BuzzMachine — ... * Google DNS is supposed to speed up the web for you (speed is a big Google cause these days) but it also gives Google an invaluable source of data about web usage: who goes where when and before and after what sites looking for what. Now, your ISP knows that. But with DNS, Google could know that. It makes Google smarter about the web and its content as a whole, certainly, and so long as it is careful about privacy, it can enable Google to target to us better. ...

Top Google Apps in 2009
Google Operating System — Here's a list of my favorite Google services that were launched or were significantly improved in 2009. 10. Google Public DNS - a DNS resolution system that doesn't offer too many features, but it's free and fast. Very fast. 9. Google Fast Flip - a service that lets you quickly browse news. It's easy to use and it's a better way to discover interesting news articles than Google News. 8. Google Squared - an innovative way to dynamically generate collections and facts about each item. It's an extension of Google Sets and you can use it to ...

5 computing resolutions to make for the new year!
Download Squad — ... task up in Windows and add some command line parameters. I'm also going to keep my drives defragmented. Windows has a built-in tool, of course, but I like what I've seen from Auslogics Disk Defrag. I'm even going to make sure that I create System Restore points on a regular basis. Don't laugh, it's actually a pretty useful tool! Stop malware from getting near my PCs. I'm going to switch my router to a DNS service like Google Public DNS or Open DNS to help all the systems in my house steer clear of malicious ...

Fire to the Mortals: Google Prometheus & Game Theory
louisgray.com — ... Google is a business, not a charity, so they need to compete aggressively in those areas that deliver them significant profits, namely search and advertising. But the company, in parallel, is driving dozens upon dozens of Web services that are speeding up the Web, ...

Firefox quietly updates to new version
SEO and Tech Daily — ... Some testers have also noted an improvement in recent weeks in Google's new Public DNS, particularly when used with Chrome and / or when directed to Google owned websites. ...

Troubleshoot your DNS
Macworld — ... , DNS service from a veteran domain-hosting service; and Google’s recent entry, Google Public DNS . OpenDNS is the most widely used; easyDNS is highly regarded; and Google is, well, Google. Although OpenDNS offers its lookup services for free, it is a business. It makes its money by charging for more advanced features, such as malware blocking, removing ads, and providing logging data. It also makes money through a form of redirection: It will try to correct typos: If you enter the wrong address— .cmo instead of .com —OpenDNS will correct it for you. But if you mistype an ...