What are advantages of using google.load('jQuery', …) vs direct inclusion of hosted script URL?

Question

Google hosts some popular JavaScript libraries at: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

According to google:

The most powerful way to load th

Answer 1

You might want to load a library only under special conditions.

Additionally the google.load method would speed up the initial page display. Otherwise the page rendering will freeze until the file has been loaded if you include script tags in your html code.