User time is valuable, and must be respected. Data being present somewhere, in some form, doesn't mean that it is in a form that can be reasonably used. If I

User time is valuable, and must be respected. Data being present somewhere, in some form, doesn't mean that it is in a form that can be reasonably used. If I want to find an application without ads, requiring me to open every search result and manually check whether there are ads is very anti-consumer. My opinion here would be different if an alternative search interface existed. However, the Google Play Store's API is focused on developers and doesn't allow for making searches. In addition, the Terms of Service forbid redistribution of content, so a third-party API that scrapes the results would be forbidden. By removing alternatives, Google has taken responsibility for a good user interface (and blame for a bad user interface) onto themselves.