Google has a lot of high level information about internet web sites, including topical categorizations. They have the ability to offer services to filter the web traffic from your machine(s), and insights to discover phishing and other malevolent web sites.
(See Google Porn Stopper? and Google Bot-Net Stopper?)
Google could provide a service such as OpenDNS.com which currently provides a robust DNS lookup and web site filtering (if desired). Google has the knowledge and horsepower to offer DNS services and the associated web site filtering. They would then connect your existing Google account to web site filter settings (possibly with some automatic help from a small network identifying and setup application in Google Pack). Google Apps already intends to be most of the personal/home/business web services infrastructure that you'll need... web based content filtering seems to fit right in for those users that want it.
A GoogleDNS solution would also provide users with a way to remotely monitor the activity of their own machines/networks, just as any commercial web site filtering software would offer. This would be possible because your machine using GoogleDNS services would log all their DNS lookups (which amounts to all internet activity).
The real question is whether Google will determine this to be "evil" because of the potential for abuse of information. Though they are already housing your email, your web sites, your browsing habits, ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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