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> If I type "<city> weather" google will show me the weather, but which weather company has shutdown because of that? I have noticed recently that the Weather.
by irrational 5y ago
> If I type "<city> weather" google will show me the weather, but which weather company has shutdown because of that?
I have noticed recently that the Weather.com app has added huge advertisements at the top and has roughly doubled the number of ads within the page. It honestly feels like desperation to me and I’ve been wondering if something bad is happening to the company.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoIt has no reason to exist in the first place. All the data for weather comes from government agencies anyway, and weather.gov does the same job. They’re a relic from when we did not have internet and there might have been some utility in a middleman producing a TV channel to get people that information.
- Frost1x 5y agoTo be fair, NWS does a poor job at presenting their own data. Some services do add their own models to NWS but the vast majority just re-wrap NWS forecasts. NWS data visualizations and the websites aren't the snazziest things but they do work.
- swiley 5y agoI guess I'm weird but I prefer the NWS.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMe too, it’s so nice and simple.
- ahallock 5y agoWhile weather.gov does serve that purpose, someone else could provide a much better UI -- sort of like what Simple did with banking (I know they shutdown...haha, but they did create a better experience over traditional banking). Why give one website a monopoly?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI am not saying they should be restricted from existing, but I do not see a business case for it, at least certainly not as big of a company as it used to be.
- mattkrause 5y agoIBM bought them a few years ago.