[Funnnny]

The author complain that when he search his own app name, his app listed at number 20. I can't find any wrong about it, I would not trust or want an app listed in the top, when it has only 1-5 install and 0 rating. Google knows how to do search, and they know the name is not all.

[martingordon]

I can't get to the article, but if the user is searching for a proper name and there is an exact match, it should rank above all other matches.

Just because Google does search well in many areas doesn't mean they put the time into doing search well everywhere. Go search your Gmail for "info" or "doc" and tell me how many results you get that match "information" or "document".

[aw3c2]

He searches for ‘USA Travel Guide" (without quotation marks). For the same string but with quotation marks his app is the first result.

[megablast]

That is not the problem I have, the problem I have, and why I wrote the article, is that the other results are awful, and have nothing to do with what I search for, 'USA Travel Guides'. Since I only release my app last week, I have no problem with my app being down in the results.

Doing this search on android marketplace: https://market.android.com/search?q=usa+travel+guide

Produced a few non travel guides, and most of the travel guides listed are for countries other than the USA. This was my gripe. Surely a new app, with no ratings should be higher in the list that a travel guide for India or Dublin?

[Funnnny]

The first and the third result seems resonable to me, Free, have over 100.000 install, in category Travel, and related to Travel as well.

Those "TRIPOSO TRAVEL GUIDES" app is a little problem there, but most of them have over 1.000 install, and related to Travel, then the result is acceptable.

The truth is, when I search an app name in the Market, I expect an App that have this function, not the App have this name. Doing this can prevent malware app have a fake name. I don't really know how Google do search at the Market, but I always found what I wanted here.

And remember you're searching for 'usa' 'travel' and 'guide' and it combination, not the whole text.

[megablast]

I agree, there are some good apps turned up in the search. The only issue I have is all these weird apps turning up in the search, which have nothing to do with USA travel. I expected more, but I can see why it is happening.

I have no problem with number of installs, or other factors affecting rating, and have no issue with my new app being down the list. I just wish it was higher rated than apps that have nothing to do with the search text.

[angryasian]

when I do a literal search your app comes first

https://market.android.com/search?q=%22usa+travel+guide%22&#...

otherwise I think for google how they weight each word with reviews, quality and other variables its relevant for a new app. Pick a less generic name, if you want it to rank higher in search.

[jellicle]

Exactly. Author is trying to spam the app search results with a generic name, and is upset that Google isn't facilitating it.

ATTENTION GOOGLE and other folks running any sort of app stores:

Canada and other countries require corporate names to have at least one non-generic element. You cannot name your company "Trucking Company", but you can name it "Smitherson's Trucking Company". Anyone running an app store should do the same, otherwise your store just fills up with dipshits naming their app "App" or "Best App" or "USA Travel Guides" in an attempt to spam the results.

[bad_user]

"USA Travel Guides" is not the same as "App" or "Best App", as it describes precisely the app's purpose.

Also, USA should have a bigger relevance than other words.

    You cannot name your company "Trucking Company"

The author is saying that if he searches for "trucking company", then search results that don't have anything to do with "trucking company" may show up before results that do.

This is as if Google pretends to know better. It clearly doesn't.

I do agree that I get annoyed by all the apps that are putting a description in their name. But that's not different from someone buying digital-photography-school.com

There is still a trade-off so some people don't prefer this: even if it has benefits in regards to search engines, it's not a memorable brand.

Imagine doing commercials on TV for "Trucking Company".