Anyone else think the play store has had such a constant decline to the point where you can barely find an app without being flooded with ads. I pretty much only use f droid at this point because the quality of apps is just higher

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      One thing in Google’s defence (I know…) is that it may be the makers of those other apps successfully optimising their apps search terms and SEO tags and so on, so that they appear when the user has searched for a different app.

      Obviously it’s still on Google for relying too much on an algorithm that doesn’t prioritise the app name enough, but people gaming the system doesn’t help either.

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        6 months ago

        Nah, this changed literally overnight. One day search worked, next time I used it, it was this shit.

        It was clearly a change by Google.