Play Store daily installs dropped

Google has said they changed their app search engine to prioritize other things. They won’t say what the new priorities are since they don’t want developer’s “gaming the system”. But this is definitely a change Google put into play.

Rob

It makes me wonder,  I’ve been looking at search results, and it makes no sense.   I see patterns of repeating apps, some of them have worse rating than mine with fewer downloads, some deserve their spots, some have like 10 downloads and get close to the top…  

I’m worried about becoming invisible.  I’ve been testing keywords and for the life of me I can’t see where they are really making a difference.

Greg

Some more info:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/improving-discovery-of-quality-apps-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FhsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29&SRC=MOBILE_DEV_MEMO

I think that is a bug in their search. Link

I sure hope that’s it fungrip, because it is causing a big headache for alot of indy’s!  At least it motivated me to get all my apps over to Apple!