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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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