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Re:Google Spell goes down and no one notices by smackfu on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:25AM (#5498225)
Read the article carefully. This was a non-Google plug-in using a private Google API that was then shutdown when Google stopped using it. This impacted users of the plug-in. This has nothing to do with Google, really.
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Re:Google Spell goes down and no one notices by RyanMcGreal on Friday April 05, 2013 @10:39AM (#5498665)
What I took from the article is that it was a bad idea for the API client to let errors pass over in silence.
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Re:Google Spell goes down and no one notices by chickopozo on Friday April 05, 2013 @11:45PM (#5502552)
They used a hacky method from the old IE Toolbar. That's like me scraping a website and blaming them when they change it.
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Re:Google Spell goes down and no one notices by brokentone on Friday April 05, 2013 @01:44PM (#5499864)
Well, there is silence at one level, and the next level reports a success (lack of spelling error).
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