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Gotta love Apple's App Store. Search for "kino" and get a competing app as an ad, but then numerous other apps that aren't Kino including a variety of keno game

Gotta love Apple's App Store. Search for "kino" and get a competing app as an ad, but then numerous other apps that aren't Kino including a variety of keno games. Search for "kino pro video camera", same situation, but finally find it in position #5 despite being an exact title match. Bravo App Store search team. (The same happened when Threads launched.)

petargyurov 2y ago
Same thing happens on Android. Even for recognised apps/brands, the top search result is an ad for a competitor. Just this morning I searched for "Strava" and the top result was some random hiking app.
lauriswtf 2y ago
Well they just launched today so I'd assume that is the main reason behind low rankings. It will get up there soon.
- rtkwe 2y ago
  Low ranking even on an exact title match though is pretty bad.
  - hbn 2y ago
    It's a 4 letter word, commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film. I saw the announcement pretty early on and when I started typing in "kino" into the App Store search, the first autocomplete suggestion was the rest of the app's title in the listing "- pro video camera", and if I clicked that one it showed the app first (well, first result after an ad)
    - WhyNotHugo 2y ago
      It also literally means "Cinema" in [at least] two other languages.
    - rtkwe 2y ago
      It's improved as people download it, the root comment by petercooper though found it at position 5. It's also not just a 4 letter word search it was the full app name which is where I was saying it was particularly bad. That's 17 letters not counting spaces and an exact match, that should be a really strong signal even with a brand new app that the person is looking for that app. > commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film. I've never heard Kino used that way personally.
    - michelb 2y ago
      If I search for an app called Kino, I expect to find an app called Kino if there is one. Not scammy ads or other apps.

petargyurov 2y ago

Same thing happens on Android. Even for recognised apps/brands, the top search result is an ad for a competitor. Just this morning I searched for "Strava" and the top result was some random hiking app.

lauriswtf 2y ago

Well they just launched today so I'd assume that is the main reason behind low rankings. It will get up there soon.

rtkwe 2y ago
Low ranking even on an exact title match though is pretty bad.
- hbn 2y ago
  It's a 4 letter word, commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film. I saw the announcement pretty early on and when I started typing in "kino" into the App Store search, the first autocomplete suggestion was the rest of the app's title in the listing "- pro video camera", and if I clicked that one it showed the app first (well, first result after an ad)
  - WhyNotHugo 2y ago
    It also literally means "Cinema" in [at least] two other languages.
  - rtkwe 2y ago
    It's improved as people download it, the root comment by petercooper though found it at position 5. It's also not just a 4 letter word search it was the full app name which is where I was saying it was particularly bad. That's 17 letters not counting spaces and an exact match, that should be a really strong signal even with a brand new app that the person is looking for that app. > commonly used in internet slang to refer to a good film. I've never heard Kino used that way personally.
  - michelb 2y ago
    If I search for an app called Kino, I expect to find an app called Kino if there is one. Not scammy ads or other apps.