wordleSMS VS Killed by Google

OK, so to be fair, this Wordle! app is older than Josh Wardle's game. It used to be a completely different game like Wordscapes, and then when Josh Wardle's Wordle took off, hundreds of thousands of people downloaded Wordle! by mistake. Wordle!'s developer cashed in on this and sold his game to AppLovin, which turned the older Wordle! into a Wordle knock-off. The entire mobile app economy is flooded with knock-offs to the point where it's hard to find originals. Heck, Wordle itself is a Lingo knock-off. However, Josh Wardle created Wordle and named it after himself, then sold it to the New York Times. NYT Wordle is the one and only official Wordle, and for now, it doesn't have any ads or any mobile apps.

Original game: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

yup. it's /u/powerlanguage who organized most of /r/thebutton. The original wordle URL was also https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

GOOGLE, you've known me for years, when I type in P and O and then Enter you know damn well i'm not trying to go to https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

I think I found the source of the issue! I looked at this post and checked on how I opened wordle every day on my phone. I realized, that I always type wordle in the search bar and click on the first suggestion Safari gives me. I think the issue is, that Safari does not suggest the plain wordle URL (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) but the one, that was generated when NY Times transferred the game from the original domain (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) to theirs. It looks something like this and was generated to be able to transfer the stats from the old page to the new NY Times page:

Source: All possible 'solution' words are stored directly in the Wordle website's JavaScript.

omg where have you been

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com

The website you're referring to: https://killedbygoogle.com/