Comment App Store bugs = Apple's lack of interest & fo (Score 1) 258
The USA App store appears to be the only one which is bug free and maintained.
Take for example the UK App store where I used to rank #1 on a keyword pair.
Great but there are only 2 other Apps with that keyword combo in the UK.
Then I recently changed my keywords and to my utter disbelief I've dropped off the search results for that keyword combo in the UK.
In the USA I'm #1 out of 37 for that keyword combo. Same for New Zealand, only 2 App's listed, but not mine, for that combo.
This would indicate that Apple just doesn't give a sh*t right now, they've no focus on the App store short of keeping the USA one running smoothly.
Otherwise I'm happy, I'm ranking really well on all the other keywords and combo's and I've seen an 10x increase in installs this month.
A fair system would rotate the top 10-15 App's dependant on a combination of factors like the average session length, un-install rate, feedback rating, total app revenue, etc
Don't let's get start on the broken rating system either....
I hope they don't do a Google and start favouring those who make them the most money.
The whole Google search is commercially "broken" with it's focus on delivering search results weighted in the interests of Google's "share holders".
Website's which Google's software deems as "able to pay to display" got chopped off the top keywords a while back.
A website of mine suffered that fate and in the same month Google bombarded me with emails about getting started on AdWords.
That move didn't favour the users of Google search, it favoured Google's bottom line.
If Apple's philosophy of "doing the right thing" still holds post-Jobs then they will (hopefully) come up with an algorithm which favours the best Apps being presented to the users in search results.