With almost three million apps on the counter, confiscating a particular app on the Play Store can quickly turn into a police investigation. Sometimes you just need to start a search in any calculator or calendar-type utility to get hundreds of results with very similar names.
To make user searches a little clearer and easier, Google aims to show additional information in search results: size and popularity of apps. Previously, only the overall rating of apps was available in search results, and you had to click on each app to see its size and popularity and access reviews.
A little more research
Users are now see all this information at once eyelash. It’s useful when you want to take the time to explore all the possibilities before setting your eye on a particular app. Only, these additions are not yet visible to everyone. According to our colleagues at Android Central, Google initially reserves this feature for developing countrieswhere mobile data is valuable and much more expensive.
If this additional information is welcome, it should be noted that the download count may mislead users. Not that the quality of the app is necessarily important. Some developers will artificially inflate these figures by mass-downloading their own creations, while others will produce semi-compatible copies of popular apps to encourage users to download them here as well.
So, stay alert as well and always take the reflex to have a look at the comments section. A wave of negative reviews will say more about an app’s quality than the number of downloads.
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