I was going into a whole long comment on why search doesn't work for apps (no hyperlinks, web pages don't cost money to visit), but the whole thing is a bit of

I was going into a whole long comment on why search doesn't work for apps (no hyperlinks, web pages don't cost money to visit), but the whole thing is a bit of a red herring. Apple is not using curation to make finding apps easier. It's using curation to set a minimum bar for entry. Google is using search to find the most relevant web pages, not to find the worst web pages (which is a much harder, if not impossible, search). Apple does need a good search so I can find the apps I want. (I think this is usually the case. Being unable to find an app hasn't been a problem.) But having a good search is a different question than "should apps be filtered for buggy, malicious, or useless apps?"