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Why does a general use podcast app have covid in its search keywords? Scumbag marketing tactic; kudos to google if that’s all this is over.
by Steko 6y ago
Why does a general use podcast app have covid in its search keywords? Scumbag marketing tactic; kudos to google if that’s all this is over.
- matsemann 6y agoDid it? Looking at the Google cache of the Play Store page, the only references I can find to covid, virus or similar terms are reviews saying they downloaded it because of the lockdown and are happy with it. Edit: Here's how the page looked the day before takedown, no hints here at least of them doing anything like that: http://web.archive.org/web/20200515172150/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict http://web.archive.org/web/20200515172150/https://play.googl... And even if they were, couldn't a general app say something along "listen to your favorite sports podcasts, ted talks or get the latest news about X"?
- Aissen 6y agoIt auto-recommends (very) popular podcasts. Guess what: many of them have Covid-related episodes.