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Google: search for an application

56 points by antimora 14y ago

shoota 14y ago
No windows apps?
- damian2000 14y ago
  Their PageRank may be too low.
- marcog1 14y ago
  If you click on "Search tools" you can filter by OS. Surprisingly very few Windows apps.
razfar 14y ago
I wonder what this means for https://www.quixey.com/ https://www.quixey.com/
niclupien 14y ago
11,100,000 results for "twitter" now that is scary. The idea is good but having application aggregators such as download.cnet.com, softpedia.com and others in the result means a lot of duplicate entries.
- nwh 14y ago
  Once you get to page 34, the true number is revealed (like in normal search). > Page 37 of 362 results
  - lucb1e 14y ago
    I always find it curious how the true number is only revealed at some page that almost nobody normally visits.
olegp 14y ago
This will be handy for https://starthq.com https://starthq.com - a web app directory I launched the other week. One piece of feedback I've received is that people prefer to use a native mobile app if one is available, so the plan is to include links to app stores on the app pages. Unfortunately, none of the app stores offer APIs for retrieving apps based on keywords.
- aaronbrethorst 14y ago
  Apple offers a search API for the iTunes store: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati... Are you saying it can't search on keywords? I find that sort of shocking.
  - olegp 14y ago
    From what I understand with Apple you need to specify the country in which you're searching and you may get different results for the same query based on that. There isn't a way to get back a single link to which you could redirect all users that want to download the iOS app, regardless of where they are from. Edit: so yes, I was wrong to say "none", but Apple has its own set of issues making it difficult to do
megablast 14y ago
Seems to work a lot better than google play's search, which returns absolutely awful results. Searching for New York travel guide in google play will return travel guides for Paris, Rome etc...
mihai_ionic 14y ago
Nice, my application which is not even on page one in Google Play search appears as the first result for the same keyword in Google Applications.
libovness 14y ago
Shameless plug: We've got lightning-fast iOS app search on Appsfire. Apps sorted by relevance and quality (using our own App Score) http://getap.ps/appsfire http://getap.ps/appsfire We're not there with Android yet, though.
- thijser 14y ago
  For Android we've built AppBrain (which is also included in the Google application search engine).
tonyedgecombe 14y ago
Sadly it just seems to be aggregating a number of spammy download sites. Searching in my product category turns up pages on CNet, Brothersoft, etc but no original developer sites.
- ericcholis 14y ago
  It would appear that they've targeted know distribution systems, with Play and the App Store being the obvious choices. Some SEO Suggestions, if this is related to something you are distributing. Look into somehow implementing Rich Snippets [1]. Also, Schema.org [2] [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170 http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... [2] http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html
frostnovazzz 14y ago
Works well when I search Chinese keywords

56 points by antimora 14y ago

shoota 14y ago

No windows apps?

damian2000 14y ago
Their PageRank may be too low.
marcog1 14y ago
If you click on "Search tools" you can filter by OS. Surprisingly very few Windows apps.

razfar 14y ago

I wonder what this means for https://www.quixey.com/ https://www.quixey.com/

niclupien 14y ago

11,100,000 results for "twitter" now that is scary. The idea is good but having application aggregators such as download.cnet.com, softpedia.com and others in the result means a lot of duplicate entries.

nwh 14y ago
Once you get to page 34, the true number is revealed (like in normal search). > Page 37 of 362 results
- lucb1e 14y ago
  I always find it curious how the true number is only revealed at some page that almost nobody normally visits.

olegp 14y ago

This will be handy for https://starthq.com https://starthq.com - a web app directory I launched the other week. One piece of feedback I've received is that people prefer to use a native mobile app if one is available, so the plan is to include links to app stores on the app pages. Unfortunately, none of the app stores offer APIs for retrieving apps based on keywords.

aaronbrethorst 14y ago
Apple offers a search API for the iTunes store: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati... Are you saying it can't search on keywords? I find that sort of shocking.
- olegp 14y ago
  From what I understand with Apple you need to specify the country in which you're searching and you may get different results for the same query based on that. There isn't a way to get back a single link to which you could redirect all users that want to download the iOS app, regardless of where they are from. Edit: so yes, I was wrong to say "none", but Apple has its own set of issues making it difficult to do

megablast 14y ago

Seems to work a lot better than google play's search, which returns absolutely awful results. Searching for New York travel guide in google play will return travel guides for Paris, Rome etc...

mihai_ionic 14y ago

Nice, my application which is not even on page one in Google Play search appears as the first result for the same keyword in Google Applications.

libovness 14y ago

Shameless plug: We've got lightning-fast iOS app search on Appsfire. Apps sorted by relevance and quality (using our own App Score) http://getap.ps/appsfire http://getap.ps/appsfire We're not there with Android yet, though.

thijser 14y ago
For Android we've built AppBrain (which is also included in the Google application search engine).

tonyedgecombe 14y ago

Sadly it just seems to be aggregating a number of spammy download sites. Searching in my product category turns up pages on CNet, Brothersoft, etc but no original developer sites.

ericcholis 14y ago
It would appear that they've targeted know distribution systems, with Play and the App Store being the obvious choices. Some SEO Suggestions, if this is related to something you are distributing. Look into somehow implementing Rich Snippets [1]. Also, Schema.org [2] [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170 http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... [2] http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html

frostnovazzz 14y ago

Works well when I search Chinese keywords