Well, google sets the standard for its web search, but try searching on its android market website and you will be disappointed.
Here is a simple search, for anyone thinking about heading to the US, ‘USA Travel Guide’. Click on that link to open a new window. Currently it returns 271 results, but as we will see, the results don’t often have much to do with USA or travel guides.
The first set of results appear below, and it is not until we get to the fourth spot do we see a US travel guide. The first and third are not even travel guides, and the second is a travel guide to Barcelona? Same problem with the fifth entry, which is a travel guide to Bangkok? How do there get in there.
There are 24 entries on the first page, 12 of them are travel guides to completely different countries and cities, from Athens to Zurich, 2 of them are not even travel guides at all, and only 9 are of actual use, and most of them are towards the bottom of the page. The apps that are actual travel guides for the US are US Mobile Guide, New York City Guide, Tourist Eye Travel Guide, Washington D.C. Travel Guide, XLR8R Scion City Guide, Boston Travel Guide, Audio guide Toozla, Triposo Travel Guide and our app USA Travel Guide.
Our app, the app with the exact name, comes in at number 20.
I certainly expected better from Google.
