Has anyone else experienced spam apps in Google's search results in Play? I have a season app for an annual sporting league in Australia, and aside from the mystery of how the "big players" manage to get their apps at the top of the search results immediately they publish them, the more irritating situation for me is where the search results are poisoned by obsolete, clearly unsupported apps appearing in the search list.
These apps are from the previous system and have not been updated for the current season, they have clearly been abandoned, the last updates were nearly a year ago, but I guess because they have quite a lot of reviews from the previous season, they trump my app in the search list ordering. Worse is the developer has made "per team" apps for a league of 17 teams and most of them (about a dozen) appear in the search list results for the most likely search term. I tried to report them as spam, but despite Google's stated developer policies specifically banning spam apps, there seems to be no way to report them, no way to get a human being inside Google to look at the issue. Anyone else experienced anything similar, and if so were you able to work out a strategy to deal with it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
