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We launched an android version of our app (Zite) on Thursday.

For 1.5 days, users were unable to find us with a search for "zite" because google was silently correctly to "site". I estimate we lost between 70-90% of potential downloads during that timeframe.

Sadly, this is what it always does when I search for apps that were just released. I wish they'd fix this.

I'm fairly certain it's just not indexed yet. Give it some time.

It shows up in search now, but it's about the 20th result (may have been true earlier as well, I didn't try scrolling far). But even if it wasn't indexed immediately (which is still ridiculous - it's all their system), they're still not taking app name or current trends into search results.

I certainly won't disagree with you there. I scrolled quite deeply through the list earlier and didn't see it, which is why I assumed it wasn't indexed yet. The searching could definitely use some tweaking to weigh the name / trend more heavily.