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Apple lets iPhone developers add search keywords

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Apple adds keywords to App Store additions

Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Earlier this week, Apple took a step towards making iPhone and iPod touch apps easier to find. Specifically, developers can now add comma-separated keywords to their apps, up to 255 characters.

Hopefully this will make it easier to find apps, because it's certainly not easy now. The categories are so vast and each one so densely packed (there are 65,000+ apps in the store as of this writing), that finding the one app that will do what I want is a chore.

Keywording is a small step, but as Tim Cook noted in last week's earnings conference call, there is plenty of room for "further improvement" in app listings and search/accessibility for finding the apps you want.

Since the store's purpose is to drive iPhone sales (from Apple's perspective), we're sure they're motivated to get it right.

Update: At least one developer is reporting an issue with the new service.

[via AppleInsider]

Apple adds keywords to App Store additions originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Apple adds keywords to App Store additions originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Asking Developers to Submit Keywords to Facilitiate App Store Searching

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New iPhone only visible to most loyal customers, claims The Onion

Can you spot the poseurs?

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

New iPhone only visible to most loyal customers, claims The Onion originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft Bing’ing it’s Way Onto iPhone? Yahoo Enters 10-Year Search Deal

Yahoo! and Microsoft have just announced a 10-year search deal where Microsoft’s newly re-branded Bing service will take over web searches for the venerable Yahoo! For its part, Yahoo! will get 88% of ad-based search revenue for 5 years and the ability to sell ads to some Microsoft search sites as well and limited access to user data.

Um, okay. Is that a good deal? Even if it doesn’t face any regulatory or approval problems, the deal won’t close until next year and then will take up to a couple of years to get up and running.

So, impact on the iPhone and iPhone users in the short term is likely nothing. Although, like Jacob’s nemesis on Lost, it could mean Microsoft has finally found a loophole to get their Bing search service onto the iPhone…

Currently the iPhone offers too search options via Settings > Safari: Google and Yahoo. Will Apple be switching that to Google and Bing?

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Microsoft Bing’ing it’s Way Onto iPhone? Yahoo Enters 10-Year Search Deal

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Apple Improves iTunes App Store Search, Asks Developers for Keywords

Apple Insider is reporting that iPhone developers have been contacted by Apple and asked:

enter up to 255 characters worth of keywords, separated by commas, which will be used for search in the App Store on the iPhone and iPod touch.

They’re told this must be completed via iTunes Connect “as soon as possible so your application can continue to be successfully located on the App Store”. What, if any measures are in place to prevent more ethically challenged developers from misappropriating key words (i.e. using names of competing products or unrelated yet popular terms) remains to be revealed.

Additionally, Apple Insider says search results have improved in general, a query for “EA” now returning 18 results for Electronic Arts games rather than previous results that included unrelated games using an abbreviation for “each”.

Baby. Steps.

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Apple Improves iTunes App Store Search, Asks Developers for Keywords

Apple: Jailbreaking could knock out transmission towers

Apple has told the U.S. Copyright Office that modifying the iPhone's operating system software could crash transmission towers.

UPDATED: AT&T Data Outage in Northeast/Midwest? Is Your iPhone Offline?

UPDATE: AT&T tweets (yes, really), that service has been restored as of 8:20am. Is that true for everyone?

ORGINAL: Business Insider is reporting an AT&T data network outage in the US Northeast and Midwest. If you’re having trouble connecting to EDGE/3G with your iPhone, let us know where and when in the comments, and if it comes back up, let us know that as well.

[Thanks to DC for the tip]

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UPDATED: AT&T Data Outage in Northeast/Midwest? Is Your iPhone Offline?