App Store searching gets better


Sarah Perez for TechCrunch:

If you used the search keyword "Twitter" as a test of the algorithm's intelligence, you would have seen more relevant results after November 3 than in the past, but popular paid applications like Tweetbot weren't on the list. But following this newer change, the search results improved again. Not only did Tweetbot appear (it shot up to No. 4 in the search results, as Launch Center Pro developer David Barnard spotted yesterday), other well-known Twitter applications like Twitterrific (No. 5) also moved higher up the list, while Instagram finally disappeared from the top 10.

It seems not long ago I had better luck finding a particular or general app by searching Google rather than the App Store itself.