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shoota
No windows apps?
marcog1
If you click on "Search tools" you can filter by OS. Surprisingly very few Windows apps.
niclupien
11,100,000 results for "twitter" now that is scary.

The idea is good but having application aggregators such as download.cnet.com, softpedia.com and others in the result means a lot of duplicate entries.

nwh
Once you get to page 34, the true number is revealed (like in normal search).

  > Page 37 of 362 results

lucb1e
I always find it curious how the true number is only revealed at some page that almost nobody normally visits.
olegp
This will be handy for https://starthq.com - a web app directory I launched the other week.

One piece of feedback I've received is that people prefer to use a native mobile app if one is available, so the plan is to include links to app stores on the app pages. Unfortunately, none of the app stores offer APIs for retrieving apps based on keywords.

aaronbrethorst
Apple offers a search API for the iTunes store: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...

Are you saying it can't search on keywords? I find that sort of shocking.

olegp
From what I understand with Apple you need to specify the country in which you're searching and you may get different results for the same query based on that. There isn't a way to get back a single link to which you could redirect all users that want to download the iOS app, regardless of where they are from.

Edit: so yes, I was wrong to say "none", but Apple has its own set of issues making it difficult to do

megablast
Seems to work a lot better than google play's search, which returns absolutely awful results. Searching for New York travel guide in google play will return travel guides for Paris, Rome etc...
mihai_ionic
Nice, my application which is not even on page one in Google Play search appears as the first result for the same keyword in Google Applications.
libovness
Shameless plug: We've got lightning-fast iOS app search on Appsfire. Apps sorted by relevance and quality (using our own App Score) http://getap.ps/appsfire

We're not there with Android yet, though.

thijser
For Android we've built AppBrain (which is also included in the Google application search engine).
tonyedgecombe
Sadly it just seems to be aggregating a number of spammy download sites. Searching in my product category turns up pages on CNet, Brothersoft, etc but no original developer sites.