A huge problem faced by south african users (and possibly others in similar countries) is international bandwith. Our local ISP's largest package allows 5 GB of international and 30 GB of local bandwidth a month. When users 'cap-out' of their international bandwidth, Google is inaccesible. All Google's services are inaccessible.
Ideally, Google.co.za (South African URL) should be hosted here in South Africa. But, for now, is there any way to use javascript to check if the service is available and if not, do something else i.e. show a message to users that the Google service is not available? Another problem is latency and often slow load times, slow down the entire website. An answer to this would then be to check if the response hasnt returned within a few seconds and then point the user somewhere else or remove the object from the website alltogether. Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
