Russell, I see what you mean. Thats actually pretty crazy though. Searching for Time and Piece should still prioritize those words appearing in the title.
How can search on the Android Market be THIS bad? On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Russell DuRoss <[email protected]> wrote: > If I search with the name in quotes it finds your app, but if I don't > use quotes, it doesn't (or maybe it's just way down on the list). My > guess is that the search without quotes also looks for individual > words Time and Piece and therefore gets MANY more hits, thus > relegating your app way down in the list. > > On Aug 5, 1:04 pm, Arpit Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > > I released a free app about a week ago, called TimePiece ( > https://market.android.com/details?id=com.arpitonline.worldclock). I > picked > > a name pretty close to the end of the dev process since it seemed less > > important. Before publishing to the store I searched for a couple of non > > conflicting terms and picked TimePiece since no-one seemed to have used > it. > > > > Its been about a week since I added my app. I can find it by searching > for > > "arpitonline" which is declared in the package and also as the publisher, > > but not by searching for TimePiece (the EXACT name for the app). > > > > Anyone know why this is? And what is the best convention for naming apps > for > > Market release since exact names seem to count for little. > > > > -arpit > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
