Oh, today when I read the news about Google new DNS related service I laughed at myself realizing that people are greedy, the engineers at Google Inc. are greedy and hell yeah, I’m fcuking greedy too! If you haven’t read the other (older) entry about Google yet, you should take a look now (http://blog.daohoangson.com/post/225943179/google-sickness)

Well, let me summarize a little bit. The goal of Google is to make the internet faster and many people said that they (Google people) make the internet faster to help users do search in their engine faster (which generates revenue through ads/sponsored links) and users can find more useful information faster so users can visit other websites faster (which once again, generates revenue for Google itself since many many many many websites implemented Google advertising services). And then Google now involves in Mobile market (with Android mobile operating system), it’s a little different at first but actually, people now use internet-enabled mobiles more and more to read news, play games, purchase/listen music, etc. The investment which runs into mobile industry is raising day by day with new startups. So… Google wants to make internet work better on mobile devices to make maps display faster (which generates revenue for Google when it attaches local store information in the map for example), emails load faster (revenue again with ads/sponsored links), and so on… [I don’t talk about rumors but you should know that maybe a Google phone will join the market soon.] Google even pushes things further with a PC operating system called ChromeOS which targets netbook (small laptop which is good at accessing internet), from testers reviews, this operating system is just a browser (Chrome browser, also a product of Google) with battery indicator. LOL.

Talking about Google’s services for normal users, we have a long list (the full list of Google’s services can be found here):

1. Search with Google Search. The largest search engine at this time. Including searching functionality for images, videos, blogs, news, books, etc [wicked sick - there are so many of them]
2. Email with Gmail (a pioneer at it’s launch in 2004 with AJAX technology, POP3 support and large storage)
3. Blog with Blogger (acquired from other company)
4. Photo sharing with Picasa (acquired from other company, introduced both a web version and a desktop version for both Windows, Mac and Linux)
5. Video sharing with Youtube (acquired from other company, actually, Google has it owned Google Video)
6. Organization with Google Calendar
7. Collaboration with Google Docs
8. Linguistic services including Google Translate (allow sentences translation or whole webpage translation, work like a translation proxy) and Google Dictionary (works much like using “define” in search query but it’s better in come cases when the definition even includes images, thanks to @xuanhuy238 for the tip)
9. Feed reading with Google Reader and feed publishing with Feed Burner (acquired from other company)
10. Social networking with Orkut (this social networking is dominant in Brazil). Accompany in the social field is Friend Connect (working much like Facebook Connect, has just added Twitter integration a few days ago while Yahoo! adopted Facebook Connect no longer before)
11. Manage and use mobile more effectively with Google Voice (acquired from other company, currently in beta and only works in US, allow users to use one single Google-based phone number to route to other phone numbers with conditions, schedule, etc. It also allows voice message transcribe, archive, history, logging, etc. In conclusion, this product is very cool and I would love to give it a try if I have chance)
12. Oh, how can I forgot Google Wave? The new collaboration platform which has been trending in Twitter for over 2 months and caused a lot of confusion to testers (note that testers are all tech-savvy people). As this product is still in beta, it’s interesting to see how it will grow up, soon

So, you see, every aspects in our life, Google has something for us to use. And to people in Vietnam, we are being blocked from Facebook, Google released it new Google Public DNS service! Oh, I was just kidding! Of course Google open this service not only for Vietnamese people but for it’s goal: fasten the Internet. With amazingly-easy-to-remember IP address like 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and really-fast response (around 50ms from Vietnam, FPT connection), many people will choose Google’s DNS service instead of OpenDNS’s (the IPs are 208.66.222.222 and 208.66.220.220)

Well, many people talk about Google will soon become evil but I do not really care until the next acts from Google. Up to now, they are just trying to generate as much revenue as possible and they are doing very well (I believe so). They just want to make more revenue. We have the right to be greedy, right? If it is fast, we want it faster. If it is long, I want it longer. If it is close, I want it closer. Hell yeah!

*Don’t get me wrong, hey!*