I just had a strange run-in with google.load from the Google js.api, and loading jquery and jquery-ui.
When I use google.load
google.load('jquery', '1.7.1');
google.load('jqueryui', '1.8.17')
these versions are the highest I can get, otherwise it throws an “Error: Module: ‘jquery’ with version ‘1.8.1’ not found!” and similar.
It works however with including the files in a script-tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.js"></script>
On Google Hosted Libraries there is no mentioning of google.load as an alternative, though I could swear there was one some time ago. However, on Google Loader, the example still has jquery and jquery-ui in it. Did Google forget to update the page? And if you are not supposed to load libs with load anymore, when was this change introduced?
Correct, jquery 1.8 is not in the Google Loader
If you go directly to https://www.google.com/jsapi you will see at the bottom all of the supported versions and that 1.8.1 does not exist.