Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)

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Post by jgrimm » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)
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Re: Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)

#2

Post by blakesterz » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

I'm not big on installing new apps, so I just tried a bunch of searches, including DropBox, and every single one was the very first search result. Am I just not searching for the right thing to see this in action? Are search results personalized on the appstore like they are on Google?

Re: Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)

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Post by biggc » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

blakesterz wrote: post #2

I'm not big on installing new apps, so I just tried a bunch of searches, including DropBox, and every single one was the very first search result. Am I just not searching for the right thing to see this in action? Are search results personalized on the appstore like they are on Google?

This is from 2018, the thread makes it seem like they "fixed" the problem

Re: Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)

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Post by andrewmcwatters » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

I always suspected this type of crap went on and here it is in black and white.

Re: Rant: iOS App Store search is awful (2018)

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Post by egocentric » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

Apple employee:

> the Files app was manually boosted on the top for the query “Dropbox”

Whoops!