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It just amazes me that developers try to cram editorializing into the title of the app, when you're already given a search word field and a description field in
by donarb 5y ago
It just amazes me that developers try to cram editorializing into the title of the app, when you're already given a search word field and a description field in which to tell the world about your app. IRL nobody searches for "Cheerios - Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal for the Whole Family".
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- Brian_K_White 5y agoWhy even have names then? Might as well just be a serial number that isn't displayed, and a bag of keyword fields that also aren't displayed but can be searched. A name has to convey some sort of meaning, otherwise everything will be a billion versions of Verizon. A toothbrush would be indistiguishable from a tax prep software by their names. And of course people search for every one of those words in that long cheerios name. You can't search for a thing by it's short unique meaningless name until after you find it by searching for what you want, like toasted oat cereal or wallet of freedom.
- phreack 5y agoIt's sad but if you search for 'cereal', you're going to see the one with the awful title higher up in rankings.
- stickfigure 5y agoI feel this just shows lack of imagination in the search algorithm. It seems pretty trivial to discourage this kind of thing - to start with, how about penalizing longer titles or longer lists of keywords? Let the publisher decide whether to rank low for lots of words, or high for a few.
- hbn 5y agoThis is something Google does themselves. Their listing for Chrome is "Google Chrome: Fast & Secure", Keep is "Google Keep - Notes and Lists"