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Re:Google Public DNS by wgj on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:51PM (#975080)
The Google product manager responded to TechCrunch saying "no blocking, hijacking, or filtering" and responded on privacy with "Collected data includes IP address (up to 48 hours, to detect malicious behavior against the service), ISP information and geographic information (2 weeks each). The data is not correlated with your Google account in any way."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/03/google-dns-opendns/

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Re:Google Public DNS by storborg on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:18PM (#975136)
It may not be correlated, but that doesn't mean that Google isn't getting a ton of commercial benefit from this data. It's like having your own Alexa/Quantcast, but in realtime, and with much better granularity.
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Re:Google Public DNS by wgj on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:34PM (#975171)
I agree. I also think it's fair for the provider of a public service to derive some benefit from running it. The obvious questions are: Is it ethical? Is it honest? (Google phrases it as "Don't be evil.")

In this case, if they are providing an alternative to filtering and hijacking, I see that as a really important step forward. The fact that a lot of people expected those behaviors shows just how bad the situation with DNS really is these days.

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Re:Google Public DNS by orblivion on Thursday December 03, 2009 @03:46PM (#975196)
Furthermore, they tend to open source a lot of their stuff, so they don't have to be the only way to Chat, Wave, Browse, and probably eventually DNS.
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Re:Google Public DNS by jasonwatkinspdx on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:20PM (#975457)
And an even more biased population :/
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