Today Google have announced that they are now offering a global public DNS service.   My first reaction was "Great, Google know what they are doing with all things internet so this is bound to be a great service".  My second reaction was "Google own my browser, my searches and now my DNS, just how much more data can they get on me!?

Google claim that their DNS service focuses on speed, security and validity.  In exchange Google will now be able to know what web sites you visit, even if you didn't use Google's search engine to get there.

In my opinion this is no big deal.  I intend to start using Google's public DNS at home and see if it I can notice a difference.  If I don't notice any difference I doubt I'll ever get round to switching back, maybe that's what Google are hoping?  

To find out more you can follow these links below.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html