>Yes, Google is likely to have more cached data than you, but they can also be a half a country or two away. Google has edge nodes in pretty much every ISP of

>Yes, Google is likely to have more cached data than you, but they can also be a half a country or two away. Google has edge nodes in pretty much every ISP of every country except China. A query to Google's public DNS never leaves your ISP, much less your country. >When clients send queries to Google Public DNS, they are routed to the nearest location advertising the anycast address used (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, or one of the IPv6 addresses in 2001:4860:4860::). The specific locations advertising these anycast addresses change due to network conditions and traffic load, and include nearly all of the Core data centers and Edge Points of Presence (PoPs) in the Google Edge Network. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq