Comment by aprilnya
17 hours ago
When a new app is released, it takes a few days for it to get into search, for some reason. Pretty much every single time a new app releases I see a comment like this. Nothing malicious you just have to wait a bit.
17 hours ago
When a new app is released, it takes a few days for it to get into search, for some reason. Pretty much every single time a new app releases I see a comment like this. Nothing malicious you just have to wait a bit.
> Nothing malicious
The first result is a sponsored result, and even after Friendster is indexed, if they don't pay apple's extortion-rate, the first result will still be for some other social media app.
Ads in the app store are malicious. There are people who have searched "Ledger bitcoin wallet", clicked the first link (a malicious app who paid apple enough money to be 'sponsored' for that search), and had all their money stolen.
Well they are domain squatters so they known how this extortion business works.
I think it's a warranted attitude to take a failure to implement plaintext search as part of your text search algorithm as enemy action. Yesterday I ended up at Bing for some reason and typed in the unique name of the site I was looking for and it didn't even come up in the first page; All their competitors did, as well as a couple random SEO farms. This is enshittification to the point of unusability, for an application space that we solved in the mid 90's.
My workplace does this to our customers too, where you get worse-than-plaintext-search effectiveness, and I guess it must be profitable enough conning the customer to waste our time as well, as we use the same interface for a lot of customer questions.
We need a FOSS nonprofit search engine that works like 2000s google
Arguably we need half a dozen operating on adjacent principles, to fight against engine-specific SEO exploits.
"SEO is a $100 billion industry" = your opponents have a 12 figure war budget.
Agreed.
You can search apps by their exact name, identifier, anything, and App Store will not find them for day+.
Bookmarking this for the next time somebody claims Apple makes great software.
nobody has ever claimed that apple makes great cloud software, but all of their walled garden gate-keeping aside, they’re still the last bastion of mainstream local-first computing
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FWIW I’ve never heard that claim.
People like iPhones and MacBooks, not Pages or Numbers.