Posts Tagged ‘google’

Comparison of Google Public DNS and Open DNS response

Google announced that it’s making 2 DNS servers available publicly. The servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . They’ve also given configuration instructions on their DNS page. I configured my /etc/resolv.conf to refer to Google’s DNS. Before this I ran some quick tests using dig to compare it with OpenDNS.

$ dig @208.67.222.222 gingerjoos.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 [...]

User agent GTB or GTB5 is the Google Toolbar

Was checking out this blog’s visitor stats recently when I came across this User Agent “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5″.  I was wondering what GTB5 was. Some googling and testing later I found out that GTB is in fact the Google Toolbar. To compare, here’s the UA of a Firefox [...]

Mobile updates on Orkut?

Orkut is introducing mobile updates?