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Q: apis.google question?
How do websites that use the apis.google cloud function in China? It seems they are either slower or don't load at all. What is your experience?
11 years 33 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
I don't know how they function exactly, but I always have my VPN connected all the time so I never have a problem with them loading, or speed. For example, any WordPress sites that I write for or visit that has deployed their config file on the google cloud platform with App Engine as their environment, loads just fine. But I wouldn't be surprised that if I didn't use my VPN, I would probably have connectivity problems.
Yes, any website using Google APIs or even just some fonts, will be slowed down (Great Fire Wall) or will trigger a redirection or an error (ISP being zealous). Any link that point to a Google IP address will do that.
I changed GOOG-le to Yahoo-gle, while in China. GOOG got slower as Chinese cut down the servers, after last year's 'Sep. HK landing'.
However, I can't have enough of EU GOOG:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/let-us-google-you
Sorry, 
I couldn't resist
sometimes it is loading after 5min, but also depending on the day.
only solution is a vpn.
the biggest problem is that almost everything is connected through google nowadays...
