- Google promoting a new public DNS. What are they up to?
- Google also looking at the real estate market and how to profit from it.
- Odd ideas about Bing.
- Motorola invests in multi-touch.
- Swipe credit cards with phone.
- Nokia freaked out over Smartphone market.
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I’ve been using Google Public DNS for about 3-4 hours now and have indeed noticed some speed, especially in IE8.
Google already knows my email (Gmail), the sites I visit (Web search), the news I read (Google News) and the videos I watch (YouTube). Might as well take over my connection.
Mind you, I am not a blind follower of Google. Or even worst, a Google fanbOY (Get it? fanbOY — the Oyness of fanboys.)
Bing Maps (beta) is awesome!
Bing is not exactly easy to build on. It has weak Javascript (JSON) support which works best in IE. They also support SOAP (which totally blows) and some weird ass XML format, with examples from VB and C#.
Who is going to build on top of that? If you’re a Javascript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or Cxx person then you’re going to use Google API’s and tools. Why? Because it’s easy. Same with their map api’s.
Google makes it easy. Twitter makes it easy. Facebook makes it easy. Amazon makes it easy. Detecting a trend?
#1 – iHeartSocks – Mind you, I am not a blind follower of Google. Or even worst, a Google fanbOY (Get it? fanbOY — the Oyness of fanboys.)
It’s just a coincidence that you named your kids Larry and Sergey.
John never mentioned the Intel chip, and BTW it’s only 48 cores, not 49 😉
I suppose the chips do have some interesting abilities.
Stealing from the Muppets?
DNS is at the heart of the web. He who controls DNS controls the web. Not sure how they plan to make money off it.
Square is interesting because they are trying to outfox the POS card vendors — not because they want everyone to have one.
The concept is sound, makes perfect sense for those out of the way transactions (like at a flea market or in the mall) where you don’t want the full infrastructure for a credit POS. However, I’m still very curious how they are handling the card transaction fees since there was some talk about no extra costs on the customers.
As for GNS, the only way it can work is if you completely trust Google to handle their DNS servers better than the ISPs… which in some cases I would have to say yes.
However, I will say that once you have the IP for them you then could port your machines anywhere with a connection and ALWAYS have the authenticated, correct IP. With some of the dodgier ISPs you can’t be completely sure they are correct — and with DNS poisoning and some of the other problems it sorta makes sense to have single points of “truth” for lookups. We’ll see what happens but I’ll probably try hooking up to it to see if there’s any noticable impact on my normal activities.
Which, since DNS tends to be cached locally once it’s looked up, I suspect no real significant change.
Hmmm… but if you have the central DNS lookups, the next logical thing to do is provide authenticated, “best path” routing to customers, isn’t it??
Been trying it today and it’s noticeably faster – except of course while negotiating DU. 🙂
The ability to frustrate script kiddies DDOS, etc. seems worthwhile – and the fact it’s not “true” open source is nothing more than boring to most users.
Suggestion:
Bypass all DNS. Just use the IP address of the website that you want to see.
1. Find out the IP address of your destination beforehand by using ping, traceroute or other such utilities.
2. Enter the IP address in the address bar of a web browser. “http://xx.xx.xx.xx”. The IP address should work by itself in some browsers.
This should bypass all DNS and should render in the fastest time possible.
#9 – CrankyGeeksFan
I can see that you are… reality is foreign to you.
1. How will you find bbc.co.uk? Try all IPs?
2. Using IP addresses works in all browsers.
Run a local DNS.
#10 – Jägermeister
1. Find the IP address for a specific website by using utilities like ping or traceroute. The Network utility in Macintosh OS X works well, too.
For instance, 212.58.251.197 is the IP address for the BBC.
In 1998 at an ISP where I live, the technicians browsed by IP addresses instead of domain names just in case the DNS went down. They told me it was always faster also.
#11 – CrankyGeeksFan
And it doesn’t use DNS info to find that?
IP addresses are faster, but not user-friendly.
I can’t see trusting my credit card number to Bluetooth; I’ve heard too many Bluetooth hacking stories.
Do modern browsers really cache IP addresses? I’ve seen no evidence of it.
#12 – Jägermeister
Yes, a user does have to acquire the IP addresses beforehand.
Then all that is needed is a way to store these IP addresses locally.
DNS servers could go down, sometimes intentionally. In the Fall of 2002, the DNS root servers, A through M, were struck by a distributed denial of service attack in an effort to bring down the internet. It worked on about half of them.
#13 – Uncle Patso
When I enter just an IP address in Safari’s address bar, Safari takes me to the website. Afterwards, when I type the first number of the same IP address, the assist drop-down window appears with the IP address appearing where the domain name usually is along with the title of the previously viewed web page.
#14 – CrankyGeeksFan – Then all that is needed is a way to store these IP addresses locally.
As in a Local DNS?
#14 – CrankyGeeksFan
Or just put the entries into your host file.