Rapid Web News

We have Google Chrome search engine Google OS on the horizon and now Google are starting to develop their own DNS solution.

DNS – the Domain Name System – converts a text URL into numeric IP addresses. This is typically handled by your ISP, but Google wants to perform this task in its own way;

“The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading,” stated Prem Ramaswami, he went on to say; “This can slow down the browsing experience. Our research has shown that speed matters to Internet users, so over the past several months our engineers have been working to make improvements to our public DNS resolver to make users’ web-surfing experiences faster, safer and more reliable.” Now I myself have just over a 10 Meg line which is more than fast enough for me but I’m just curious as to how this will filter down for the average Jo but I suppose it is still in the ‘idea’ stage.

“It’s not clear that Internet users really want Google to keep control over so much more of their Internet experience than they do already – from Chrome OS at the bottom of the stack to Google Search at the top, it is becoming an end-to-end infrastructure all run by Google, the largest advertising company in the world. I prefer a heterogeneous Internet with lots of parties collaborating to make this thing work as opposed to an Internet run by one big company.” This is a statement from OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch. Interesting internet times…

Finally some news on the Google OS! Netbooks, apparently, will be the first hardware that sees Google’s shiny new software in 2010. It will be open source like Ubuntu so developers can tinker and contribute; they’ve claimed it will be ‘Blazingly Fast’ using a system of ‘Cloud Computing’ built around Google’s web browser released last year.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management stated; “…With Google Chrome OS, we’ve made computing faster, easier and safer than ever before. While we still have a long way to go, we are excited by the progress we have made so far and look forward to developing the technology in the open with the help of the open source community. We want it to be like a TV – turn it on and it’s booted up…”

Although this statement was quite puzzling, seeing how they’re keeping it open source; “…As a consumer, you can’t go download Chrome OS, you will have to go and buy a Chrome OS device…” but as ever I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.