“Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses — hopefully making the service faster — and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google’s true motivations behind knowing every site you visit.”

Oh, this is tempting. I have some routers configured to use OpenDNS (mainly for their supposed fast response, not for the redirect to search), and I am rather tempted to re-configure them to use Google’s DNS servers.

But, frankly, I think Google already has enough of my private information. I don’t need them to know every site I visit (and no, I don’t put much stock in ToS; as much as I trust Google more than other companies, once they have the information, it’s safer to assume that they’ll have it for-ever).

Well, I guess for now, Google’s DNS servers do not offer anything beyond what OpenDNS or my local DNS servers do … so at least the decision is a no-brainer for the time being.

I spent a better part of this weekend transferring all my email from GMail to local storage, and I just finished reading (read: skimming headlines) all the items on the Google Reader, and I will be using offline RSS readers (at the moment, I’m trying out Liferea) only.

For the moment, I don’t see anything in my life (er… other than searching, maybe) that depends on Google, and given the recent privacy issues that has come up regarding some of Google’s services, that’s a good thing.

P.S. No, I am not a pedophile (and if I were, I would be smarter than storing incriminating information on anything but local, encrypted storage), but as the saying goes, “It’s first the pedophiles, criminals, and the rest of us,” as government encroachment on our civil rights goes.

Google shares rose above $700 this week, making the search giant worth more than Cisco, Intel, Apple, or IBM, but still less than Microsoft and General Electric, if just barely. Is the company really worth that kind of money or is this just the effect of a bubble market? Google is on a tear, that’s for sure, but I see a few potholes ahead that the company could avoid but probably won’t. Part of this stems from Google starting to look, in some ways, a bit like Microsoft. Uh-oh.

I have a simple breakdown here for you: Let’s get rid of pigeons before we worry about the flying lizards. Destroy Microsoft (which does hold a monopoly that so desperately needs to be broken) first, and we will worry whether Google is becoming too powerful (which, as pervasive as it’s becoming, is not a monopoly and has many alternatives in its fields) later.

Second, less allegories and more information please? What’s described under “algorithm optimization gone mad” sounds like a very typical business procedure for any company, and, seriously, with all those verbose decorations, I can’t get to any solid information that I can take away.

As far as I can tell, this article carries no information worth propagating whatsoever.