This was released about 2 and a half months ago and very widely publicised at the time - perhaps not on FT though.

I strongly advise caution with one of the pieces of advice in your post, which is to manually change the DNS settings in the network adapter on your PC. If you have a laptop that is used in a mixture of locations, including an office, this could limit (or prevent entirely) your ability to connect to your corporate network and internal servers.

The advice to change the DNS settings on a home router is sound, but the benefits that can be achieved from using the service are somewhat variable. In many cases the ISP DNS servers will perform significantly better than the Google ones, in other cases the Google ones will perform better. I've performed extensive testing on the service over the last 2 months and overall I would conclude that it is beneficial for most users.