Google Public DNS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNS filtering | Network and edge | 0% | 94 of 94 | 100% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by DNSFilter at 59% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Google Public DNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Problematic Providers to Avoid ... Google's DNS and OpenDNS employ tracking for their specific needs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DNS filtering · negative prompt · hard negative
“Google Public DNS, if minimizing data collection is your top priority... That's a disclosed tradeoff, not evidence that the service is unsafe.” GPT-6 Luna · DNS filtering · negative prompt · soft negative
“Caution reason: While Google offers encrypted DNS, Google is fundamentally an advertising company that builds user profiles.” MiniMax M2.5 · DNS filtering · negative prompt · soft negative
“For privacy-first use this is usually avoided in favour of resolvers with shorter or no-log policies.” Muse Glimmer 30B · DNS filtering · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Public DNS, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Public DNS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 16 answers that named Google Public DNS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-nine of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming Google Public DNS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Google Public DNS stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 12,100 a month (“google public dns”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 33 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Google Cloud's site (google.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 16 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 16 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Google Public DNS
Follow Google Public DNS
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Google Cloud is the company behind Google Public DNS.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Google Cloud
- Google 2-Step Verification, Google Alerts, Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Google Analytics, Google Antigravity, Google Artifact Registry, Google AutoML, Google BigQuery ML and 84 more
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Google Public DNS's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Google Public DNS, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Public DNS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Google Public DNS is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Google Public DNS, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.