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Interesting site. I love the ability to narrow down apps through an advanced search. However, I feel like it rewards apps with keywords in their titles over tho
by speedyapoc 11y ago
Interesting site. I love the ability to narrow down apps through an advanced search. However, I feel like it rewards apps with keywords in their titles over those that don't. Consider someone searching for "music". It's reasonable for Spotify to show up, or even my app Musi which currently ranks first for that keyword in the App Store since both of those apps heavily involve music. However, on AppApp, none of those are found. Instead, there are mostly music creation apps which generally include music in their titles, versus music listening apps which may not.
If Apple changed their search to work more like this, I would have to change my app name to "Music Player" to stay competitive, and add even more keywords in the title.
As it stands, I feel like Apple rewards popular apps a little too much and I like how this is a more literal search, but there is definitely merit in having a search which has understanding about what an app is about (which is what I believe Apple tries to do with their current App Store search).
- dansingerman 11y agoThanks for your comment. I do completely agree. The keywords that are entered by the developer for the iOS app are not exposed anywhere (API or otherwise) by Apple (as far as I know), so it is hard for us to index those. For further phases we are looking into some sort of bayesian categorisation/tagging which can hopefully help with this problem.
- notduncansmith 11y agoYou might also consider allowing developers to register and enter their keywords.
- dansingerman 11y agoThat's a great idea.