{"id":4457,"date":"2021-05-13T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:56:58","slug":"apples-new-app-store-feature-will-make-searching-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apples-new-app-store-feature-will-make-searching-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s New App Store Feature Will Make Searching Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple has launched a new search feature in the App Store in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK that could make it easier to find apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After entering a search term, the App Store tries to predict what a user is looking for and suggests words that narrow the search results and speed up the search for certain types of apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What keeps popping up in searches, however, are ads that Apple added to the App Store back in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is likely to fuel the App Store&#8217;s critics even further, as users will now have to compete with ads in their search, which is likely to have a detrimental effect on independent app developers, who will now have to compete with established brands for attention in the App Store ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics also pointed out that competing apps should not buy advertising before each other&#8217;s products, while Apple benefits from the result.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/29\/22410708\/apple-app-store-search-suggestions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in The Verge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has launched a new search feature in the App Store in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK that could make it easier to find apps. After entering a search term, the App Store tries to predict what a user is looking for and suggests words that narrow the search results and speed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}