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What are Google's rules about names? Only difference I can see here is the fake one is called "AdBlock" and the real one "Adblock". Is changing the case of on
by topranks 9y ago
What are Google's rules about names? Only difference I can see here is the fake one is called "AdBlock" and the real one "Adblock".
Is changing the case of one letter enough to get an extension into the Chrome store? Or even worse are overlapping names allowed?
- sp332 9y agoThe fake one is in the "Apps" section and the real one is in the "Extensions" section. Since apps aren't as popular overall as extensions, it's easier to game that section to get to the top.
- extrapickles 9y agoIt’s hard enough to tell someone which is best, telling them the particular capitalization is impossible without giving them a direct link. In addition, preventing duplicate names is fairly hard if you support unicode. Characters like the zero width space, Mongolian vowel separator and many others make it algorithmically different but visually they are the same.
- myle 9y agoThat's not really n issue. You can always compared normalized versions of the name.
- styfle 9y agoGoogle should make the extension name case insensitive like domain names. That should help a little bit.