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Google Has Something Up Its Sleeve

  • Wired, Friday, December 4, 2009 10:46 AM
Ryan Singel explains that Google launched a DNS service Thursday in hope people will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their Internet experience. Browsers ask Domain Name Service servers (DNS) to translate URLs into the Web addresses where servers reside. This lets browsers retrieve pages and e-mail clients address e-mails to the right place.

Singel writes, "Now I can use Google DNS to look up Google.com on my Google Chrome browser running on a Google Chrome OS. And Google DNS will get me to Gmail and Google Books and Google Voice and maybe soon it will even tell my browser where my Google Toothbrush is. ... We get it Google." (I'm not so sure most people do.)

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