Search giant, Google, has just publically announced their new service, Google Public DNS. It’s a free service and it’s all part of Google’s large push to making browsing the internet a lot faster for us users.

The announcement on their blog states:

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.

Google has already started working with website owners offering them another free service called Google page speed.

They want webmasters to make more efficient websites that will speed up the overall browsing experience for internet users.

Time to take off the tin foil hat

Over the years Google has been slammed about how they handle privacy of their users but what makes them any different from any other company? Is it because of the sheer amount of data they hold about us or is it we have no idea exactly what they are doing with that data?

Personally for me though I trust Google a lot more than I can trust my ISP or even bank. Heck banks are notorious for data breaches which are occurring on a daily, if not weekly, basis and my savings is more important than what I do online.

How will other Open DNS services pan out?

I’m a big fan of OpenDNS and I hope Google Public DNS won’t swallow them up and leave them long forgotten. From the looks of it Google is only providing a basic DNS service with no filtering or extra features, something that OpenDNS is great for and plus, Google does aim to assist other DNS providers with making their service also faster.

If there is one company that can make this happen, it’s Google.