To your first point, is this a critique of the speed (pushing info up to Google) or to Google sucking in yet more information? If it's the latter I'm already in

To your first point, is this a critique of the speed (pushing info up to Google) or to Google sucking in yet more information? If it's the latter I'm already in trouble because almost everything I do uses Google Analytics, but I can see the point if you're doing something else. WRT your second point, there's a middle ground of pointing to Google's hosted version for speed and falling back to a local copy if it is not found. You can see the technique in use within the Boilerplate HTML5 template - http://html5boilerplate.com/ http://html5boilerplate.com/ - Scroll down to the index.html file, line 58.