Web/Tech

January 17, 2008

iGoogle Finance App gives Information is temporarily unavailable.

If you are getting a "Information is temporarily unavailable" from iGoogle's Finance App on a Google Apps Start Page and you are using your own domain, you won't ever see anything else. At first, I checked Googles help section and found a thread for this error message. From the thread: "The "Information is temporarily unavailable" message is most likely caused by a temporary problem with a third-party gadget provider. This issue is usually resolved quickly, so we encourage you to check back soon."

Okay, but this isn't a third party app and the message has persisted for 3 days. Doesn't seem right. Then I found an blog post for the announcement of this app on the Google Finance blog.

From the post: "But wait, there's more! If you're a developer, we just made it easier for you to make a stock market gadget with our new API. The gadget API for market data provides a framework so developers can display stock market information from the American, Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges within a gadget on Google properties. Unfortunately, due to data licensing restrictions, we couldn't open this API for display on any platform."

The iGoogle Finance App uses this API and, because my Google app uses it's own domain for the start page, it probably uses AJAX policy to prohibit my use (speculation because I don't care enough to look). So much for that.