This article uses data from Google Trends. Trends data is an unbiased sample of our Google search data. It allows us to gauge interest in a particular topic and quantify what percentage of Google searchers were interested in that topic.
Goolge Trends data is indexed from 1 to 100, where 100 is the maximum search interest for the time and location selected.
Some days you are so close to figuring out the Wordle of the day but your brain knows only so many 5-letter words ending in -th.
When accepting defeat is not an option, you simply have to Google the answer. The fear of losing my 17-day win streak weighs heavier than my dignity on most days.
Wordle, which was made public in October 2021, is addictive by nature. We already know that everyone is playing it. But is everyone also cheating on it?
I wanted to look at Google Trends data to grasp just how many people were searching for the answer. I started by comparing "wordle" as a search term with other topics that are trending at the moment.
But this doesn't tell us about the cheating. Next I looked at data for the search "Wordle of the day".
The New York Times bought Wordle in late January and this chart might confirm our sneaking suspicion that they made the game harder since the acquisition.
According to the guy who made Google Trends, "those 'spikes' are a sudden acceleration of search interest in a topic, compared to usual search volume. We know these are interesting because they are often reflective of what’s going on in the real world".