{"id":119586,"date":"2017-08-05T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T10:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119586"},"modified":"2017-08-05T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:40:04","slug":"google-steps-up-its-app-store-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/119586-google-steps-up-its-app-store-algorithms","title":{"rendered":"Google steps up its app store algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google has enhanced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0its search and discovery algorithms to reflect app quality in its Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that people enjoy apps which meet their performance and quality expectations. Excessive battery usage, slow render times, and crashes can be a source of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an internal analysis of app reviews on Google Play, we noticed that half of 1-star reviews mentioned app stability,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Developers who focus on app quality can see improvements in their rating, and their retention and monetization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recently enhanced our search and discovery algorithms to reflect app quality,\u201d said Google, adding that this\u00a0results in higher-quality apps being surfaced in the Play Store more than similar apps of lower quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe change has had a positive impact on engagement \u2013 we\u2019ve seen that people go on to use higher-quality apps more and uninstall them less.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/222628-google-image-search-gets-badges-to-categorise-results.html\">Google image search gets badges to categorise results<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has enhanced\u00a0its search and discovery algorithms to reflect app quality in its Google Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[1655,1638,17606],"class_list":["post-119586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-app-store","tag-google","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119588,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119586\/revisions\/119588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}