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Searching for "Instagram" in the Play store only brings up clones of the app. I would guess the search algorithm takes total downloads (which will be higher for
by nollidge 15y ago
Searching for "Instagram" in the Play store only brings up clones of the app. I would guess the search algorithm takes total downloads (which will be higher for existing apps, for now) into account over matching the app name.
- rrbrambley 15y agoSadly, this is what it always does when I search for apps that were just released. I wish they'd fix this.
- pook1e 15y agoI'm fairly certain it's just not indexed yet. Give it some time.
- nollidge 15y agoIt shows up in search now, but it's about the 20th result (may have been true earlier as well, I didn't try scrolling far). But even if it wasn't indexed immediately (which is still ridiculous - it's all their system), they're still not taking app name or current trends into search results.
- pook1e 15y agoI certainly won't disagree with you there. I scrolled quite deeply through the list earlier and didn't see it, which is why I assumed it wasn't indexed yet. The searching could definitely use some tweaking to weigh the name / trend more heavily.
- mikeklaas 15y agoWe launched an android version of our app (Zite) on Thursday. For 1.5 days, users were unable to find us with a search for "zite" because google was silently correctly to "site". I estimate we lost between 70-90% of potential downloads during that timeframe.