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| From | Andrew <andys@nospam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? |
| Date | 2024-12-02 16:19 +0000 |
| Organization | BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) |
| Message-ID | <vikmmi$262u$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> (permalink) |
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Andy Burns wrote on Mon, 2 Dec 2024 07:54:26 +0000 : > Sometimes The Play Store will hide an app, or claim it's not available > for a given device. Most recent example here, the new Google Weather > app, supposedly a Pixel exclusive, yet it refused to install on my > Pixel8a, I downloaded from apkmirror instead. Andy is correct where I will mainly point out that *almost always* if not always, the Google Play Store search will NOT find a *lot* of apps that exist on the Google Play Store. Please realize I *tested* this both for the Aurora Store developers on XDA and for the Skyica App Finder developers - it's all in the XDA Forum. Trust me. I know far more than any of you do on this particular topic. The Google Play Store is like having a dictionary with hundreds of thousands of words in it - where most of you "think" that's everything. It's not. In fact, it's not even close to everything in the repo! Skyica App Finder uses open-source Google Play Store repository scrapers which find *millions* of words for you in that very same dictionary. And even then, Skyica doesn't always find *everything* in the repo. Ask me how I know this fact. The developer is *improving* Skyica constantly - but it's so much better than the Google Play Store search that there is no comparison possible. Plus... you guys are *forgetting* the filtering - which is the best in the world - and where the Google Play Store filtering is the worst imaginable. Please trust me that I tell you what I know, and I tell you what I don't know (as my ego is in what I can learn) - and I tell you there is no possible comparison between these two feature of Skyica versus GPS search: 1. Skyica *search* finds apps the Google Play Store search doesn't & 2. Skyica *filters* are so comprehensive that there is no comparison. > Other Pixel exclusives like generating AI wallpaper,or managing > screenshots, I could probably force install them the same way, but ...meh. I'm not sure what Andy is getting at with that sentence so I simply ask for clarification.
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Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 04:40 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-01 23:19 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 05:51 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-02 01:23 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-02 07:54 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-02 11:15 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 16:40 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 16:19 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 17:03 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-02 13:42 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 01:23 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2024-12-03 07:59 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-02 13:58 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 16:27 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-02 21:24 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 01:40 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-03 14:39 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-04 04:38 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-04 12:57 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:30 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-05 09:11 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-05 19:09 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-02 15:35 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-02 23:26 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 01:55 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 01:48 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-02 21:02 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 03:25 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-03 14:41 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-04 04:42 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-04 13:02 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-04 20:13 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:39 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-05 19:10 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:37 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-05 09:08 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-05 19:11 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-06 11:08 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-12-02 15:02 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-02 23:54 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 02:06 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-12-03 16:40 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-03 16:40 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-04 05:01 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-04 12:57 +0100
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-04 13:05 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:42 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-04 04:53 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-04 13:41 -0600
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-05 06:47 +0000
Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-12-05 09:11 -0600
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