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I'm somewhat surprised Apple doesn't do something similar to what Google does in their SERPs: blacklist anyone caught paying for placement from the App Store ra

• fpgeek 14y ago
  One complication is that Apple's "death penalty" is at least theoretically far harsher than Google's. With Google's even if you're blacklisted people can still go to your site and use it if they want to. The only penalty is that the site is (much) harder to find (especially when you're not looking for that site specifically). With Apple's, once an app is kicked out of their app store, there's no way to use it short of jailbreaking (with the possible exception of grandfathering depending on the particular circumstances).
  • itafroma 14y ago
    Oh, I'm not suggesting Apple blacklist an app entirely. Rather, remove them from consideration from the Top Paid/Free/Grossing lists (or put them at the bottom). Maybe even remove them from keyword search results in more severe cases. So you could still find the app by direct link or searching for the app name, but paying to increase rankings would be for naught. Like Google, Apple could then accept reconsideration requests that demonstrate the app is no longer the beneficiary of app store ranking manipulation.
    • fpgeek 14y ago
      Ah, that's a much more proportional response. That makes a lot of sense to me (though maybe not to Apple who often seems to act in black and white).