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jonhendry on Feb 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discove...

"This problem would be ridiculously easy to solve with letting users tag apps"

Are you sure? That would be abused for SEO in about two nanoseconds.

IMHO, the app store has too few categories to put apps in. A richer taxonomy would be better.

smackfu on Feb 24, 2012 [–]

Also only works if the tags match up to your expectations. It's easy to imagine a perfect world where every old school RPG is tagged with old-school-rpg but that doesn't really seem likely.

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