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Somewhat related to this is how staggeringly awful the Google Play search is. My app is called "My PlayHome" (the wisdom of that branding decision is another m
by shimfish 14y ago
Somewhat related to this is how staggeringly awful the Google Play search is.
My app is called "My PlayHome" (the wisdom of that branding decision is another matter). Let's see what happens if a potential buyer (quite reasonably), adds an extra space and searches for "My Play Home"...
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=my+play+home&c=apps https://play.google.com/store/search?q=my+play+home&c=ap...
To save you time, my app is at the bottom of page 3 of the results. To make matters worse, Google autosuggests "My Play Home" as you type. "My Play House" does rather better, appearing in the bottom half of the first stage, even though that's not the name of the app.
Compare, a normal Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=my+play+home https://www.google.com/search?q=my+play+home - right first time
..or Amazon
- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmobile-apps&field-keywords=my+play+home http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmo...
- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmobile-apps&field-keywords=my+play+house http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmo...
Add to that Google Play doesn't have keywords or indeed a Kids section.
Now, I should probably mess around and add some spammy keywords to my app title on Google Play but my point is that Google hasn't even bothered to get search right on its app store. That's some hardcore irony.
[EDIT] I just changed the title on Google Play to "My Play Home" - that immediately drastically improved the search results for the incorrect name even before the name is being shown as changed on the search results or the actual app page. This is not exactly optimal, as the app has 10s of thousands of paid downloads on iOS as "My PlayHome" (iOS app search also compensates for extra spaces...) as well as all the reviews on the web using my original spelling.