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Reply to App does not show up in search results.
Case in point on this issue: I searched for an app that I've installed previously because I wanted to reinstall it on my current Mac. It's an app called "Meeter for Zoom, Teams & Co." A search on the Mac App Store for keyword "Meeter" brought it up as the 28th spot in the app list. I had to scroll pretty far down to see it. A ton of other unrelated or newer knock-off versions of the app appear above it in the list, with totally different app names that were nowhere near "Meeter." I had to search for exactly "Meeter for Zoom, Teams & Co" to get it to come up first. I've worked in eCommerce and web marketing for years, and to me this seems like a bad algorithm, where Apple isn't prioritizing a partial match on app title, when they should be. If the search keyword is an exact match for part of an app title, it should show near the top... right? Obviously other factors are in play, but this has been an issue for years with the Mac Store search, and I don't seem to have the same problem when I search on my iPhone, as others have said. If the iPhone App Store search is in working order, I don't get why they still can't bring the Mac Store search up to speed in 2023. This isn't just about developers -- it's extremely frustrating as a user to not be able to easily find an app that I want to find, by name. I often end up just Googling "Mac app Meeter" or similar because Google gets it right, ironically. Apple/MacOS devs, please, please fix this so we don't have to rely on Google just to find the app we're looking for in the Mac App Store. (Description of photo above: Screenshot showing Meeter app at 28th spot in search for "Meeter")
Jun ’23