Filip Novotny Apple continues to improve the mobile App Store. This time, he focused on the search area and added a feature to show more relevant results. The mentioned novelty is a list of related phrases.
This feature you first she noticed developer Olga Osadčová, is directly connected to search using the mobile App Store. After entering the search term, the application will offer us several other word combinations that we could try further. This menu appears directly below the box for entering the searched phrase.
In practice, it works so that, for example, if we search for "action games", the App Store will also offer "action RPG" or "indie games". This function can also deal with more specific names, for example with well-known services. For example, a query for "twitter" will also show "news apps". The App Store can thus offer subqueries in the form of general phrases, but also the name of the development company or its other applications.
This innovation can make it easier for users to search for a certain type of application, and on the contrary, it will make life easier for developers to make their product visible. This has not been entirely easy in recent months, and software developers have had to use more or less legitimate paths within the so-called App Store Optimization.
Apple is still testing related searches, so for now only a fraction of users will find it on their phone or tablet. The function is still waiting for a number of improvements, which can be seen even after testing it for a short time. Some terms can "confuse" the App Store and it shows either irrelevant or no results at all.
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Apple confirmed in the evening that it is indeed testing related searches. According to the company's spokesperson, users can expect this news by the end of this week at the latest. He said that server CNET.
