Apps with misleading names have their hours counted on Google Play

There have already been several occasions in which Google has had to answer for problems and confusions in its Google Play Store application store Even before European bodies that have received cases of involuntary or unconscious purchases of apps that have involved thousands of euros Perhaps for that reason, or to establish order within your platform, you have updated your help page for developers so that they do not use trademarks famous erroneously in the name of their applications.All this in order to avoid confusion for the user.

And so far, the freedom offered by Google Play has allowed many users to leveraging famous brand names and services to make their own apps popular Tools like unofficial customers or apps that use the service of the original application to appear in user searches Or mere support tools that are sometimes found before the original application that is actually being searched for .

Therefore, the section just extended Google for developer information shows how they should to use these marks and references in the names of your applications Whereas up to now terms like Android MediaPlayer, Google suggests using another formula that is much clearer for users: MediaPlayer for Android. A simple example of what could be done with other applications such as clients for social networks such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, which take advantage of these names to appear in user searches more easily. An easy change thanks to the tag “for Facebook”, “for Instagram” or whatever.

Although Google Play Store, the app store already shows a lot of information about each application, this measure could avoid confusion for new users or the most clueless when searching an official application And, on the download page, it is possible to see the name of the developer under the name of the applicationThe key clue to know the origin of said tool and determine if it is an official application or a tool that has taken advantage of the name of the application or brand of the day.

Of course, as can be seen in the extended information recently published by Google, this change in names and terminology is a guide or suggestion of how third-party applications should be called. It is not yet known if Google itself would take action against the developer who does not respect said style guide and good practices. Of course, there are already brands and companies like Instagram or Snapchat bent on persecuting developers who try to take advantage of the fame of their services for their own benefit Even more so when these third-party applications or clients of these services do not provide the security guarantees that the creators and, of course, the users themselves demand.

We will therefore have to be attentive to possible changes in the nomenclature of some applications in Google Play Store in the coming days.