How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

Slashdot - How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

If, for example, the telephone company's accounting system goes down for a few seconds then they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. At a hundred thousand dollars a second, your telephone company makes $3,155,692,600,000 a year from time-metered services?