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So how does google benefit from me sending them my dns requests . . . , They can serve me "domain not found pages" w/ads (works for OpenDNS), unless I'm a serve

by datums 17y ago

So how does google benefit from me sending them my dns requests . . . , They can serve me "domain not found pages" w/ads (works for OpenDNS), unless I'm a server. If enough people/servers use it they can control how traffic is sent to specific domains (this would be evil). I don't necessary think my request will be a lot faster adding ms, per extra hop. What I don't like about ISPs is there disregard for TTLs. They set their own TTLs so they don't have to make a new request. With a large distributed cache it could mean less hops, I'd love to see a diagram of their dns infrastructure. I've used 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.4 (level3) in the past.

datums 17y ago
So I thought about a bit. Google is not interested in redirection $$. They want to own the experience. As far as collecting your browsing behavior, they probably can easily do that with the toolbar. There operating systems can benefit from having geoDNS ip responses. Anyone know if this was a project worked on using the 20% do what you like google perk? If google decided to do something evil. ISP can easily redirect port 53 udp/tcp traffic to their own servers.