Google Launches New Public DNS Service [What It Means to You and Me]

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Google, the master of the Internet as we know it, has come up with a new way of speeding up web browsing for us. I am talking about Google Public DNS, a service that has just been made public and it’s being experimented with as we speak.

Do we need Google to manage DNS for us? DNS stands for Domain Name System and its purpose is to translate to computers what we human refer to as website names. In other words DNS transforms hostnames into IP addresses which are required in order to access any site out there.

We can’t surf the web without DNS so we definitely need it in our lives. Google Public DNS will let you and me access the Internet in a different way. We will have to change our network settings in order for the web requests to go through the new Google service instead of our default Internet service provider.

Google has the power and resources to offer you faster responses to your searches and to your web surfing. The company has developed a huge cache of popular domains which are continuously refreshed. Whenever you point your browser to one of those web sites Google will display the site a lot faster than our regular ISP does.

Are you wondering about how your privacy will be affected by the new Google Public DNS technology? Google says that the Public DNS service will keep your IP address for up to 48 hours and then it would get deleted. But then again you will be accessing various sites every day through Google Public DNS, won’t you? Google will hold for about two weeks of data about our ISP and the city we live in so it looks like we shouldn’t have anything to worry about when it comes to privacy.

So what do you say folks? Are you ready to let Google handle your Internet requests? Is Google taking over the Internet?