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iTunes Tweaks Search Results, Bad for Developers

This week there seems to have been a change in the search algorithm used by iTunes. Previously, you could search for any app name and get a large list of results. From our own experience the app description affected these search results. Keywords were important and if the description contained those keywords then it would [...]

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iTunes 8.1 Tweaks App Ratings System

The feedback ratings system used by iTunes was busted before iTunes 8.1 was released. The new version of iTunes makes some adjustments to improve the effectiveness of the rating system, but problems will persist. Last year (2008) iPhone developers were gaming the system in various ways to artificially move their apps up the ratings system, to [...]

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