Google Teams Up With OpenDNS To Help Speed Up The Web

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The past few years have seen the Internet growing at an exponential rate and demand for bandwidth keeps rising. This poses an issue for content providers trying to bring us what we want at a rate of speed that is acceptable. Several companies have come to realize one way to speed things up for us a bit.

You see, when a content request is sent to a server, that server may or may not be near the user, directly affecting the speed at which that content is delivered. This project, being led by Google and OpenDNS, has a goal of making sure that the request goes to the closest server possible by using a portion of the user’s IP address.

Apparently there isn’t much of a security issue because the location information is only sent to companies that can see the IP address in an HTTP web request, which isn’t any more information than is typical.

Could this be a good step in a direction to improve the Internet as a whole (eventually) or should it be a concern for users and their privacy?