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You've told jQuery to expect a JSONP response, which is why jQuery has added the callback=jQuery16406345664265099913_1319854793396&_=1319854793399 part to the URL (you can see this in your dump of the request).

What you're returning is JSON, not JSONP. Your response looks like

{"red" : "#f00"}

and jQuery is expecting something like this:

jQuery16406345664265099913_1319854793396({"red" : "#f00"})

If you actually need to use JSONP to get around the same origin policy, then the server serving colors.json needs to be able to actually return a JSONP response.

If the same origin policy isn't an issue for your application, then you just need to fix the dataType in your jQuery.ajax call to be json instead of jsonp.

I have spent the last few days trying to figure this out myself. Using the old json dataType gives you cross origin problems, while setting the dataType to jsonp makes the data "unreadable" as explained above. So there are apparently two ways out, the first hasn't worked for me but seems like a potential solution and that I might be doing something wrong. This is explained here [ https://learn.jquery.com/ajax/working-with-jsonp/ ].

The one that worked for me is as follows:1- download the ajax cross origin plug in [ http://www.ajax-cross-origin.com/ ].2- add a script link to it just below the normal jQuery link.3- add the line "crossOrigin: true," to your ajax function.

Good to go! here is my working code for this:

  $.ajax({      crossOrigin: true,      url : "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=-33.86,151.195&radius=5000&type=ATM&keyword=ATM&key=MyKey",      type : "GET",      success:function(data){         console.log(data);      }    })