Google Play Store will stop showing poor quality apps

Nowadays we almost forget that mobile phones are also used to make calls. And it is that, since they became intelligent, we use them for countless tasks. Although smartphones have increasingly better features, the truth is that are nothing if they don't have applications installed That is why the catalog of Google Play Store and the App Store is growing by leaps and bounds.

There is no doubt that the variety is enormous, but not all apps are trustworthy, as you will surely have noticed on some occasion . There are many examples of malware that has infected millions of devices through the Google Play Store. That is why the company has been working to improve for some time. And that users can trust your store more.

Pen alties for bad apps in the Google Play Store

In the Google Play Store there are a large number of titles. By not performing a proper screening, we found many apps of dubious quality. These are those that present an unstable operation due to having too many failures. But let them tremble, because Google has hit the table with the new algorithm that has implemented in its app store.

As announced today on his blog for Android developers, those applications that demonstrate buggy performance will be penalized.The “punishment” consists of a downgrading in search results, to make it much more difficult to reach them. Obviously, this measure will not stop bad apps from being present in the Google Play Store. But at least it's a start.

It's not something that Google has implemented all at once. He has been testing this new algorithm for some time to ensure its good results. As confirmed by the company itself, there has been an increase in downloads of good quality applications In addition, they have detected a decrease in the number of uninstallations, which indicating that something has improved.

What does the new Google Play Store algorithm do?

The main mission of this algorithm is to detect apps that are faulty and that consume too much battery power so that they can be removed from search results. The way it does this is through reviews of each app, focusing primarily on the quality of its performance and user feedback.Depending on the result obtained, each app is penalized or rewarded in the position it obtains in the list.

This is how Google wants its virtual store to offer a better quality catalogue, but also gives a call to developers so that they take more care of your creations. Now they are forced to update their apps. And not just to add new features, but also to fix bugs and improve functionality.

Just a few days ago we found out which are the most downloaded applications in the Google Play Store, and none of them are from precisely small developers. It is true that the fact that anyone can put their app in the Google store is an incentive Because those who dare to create software for Android do not find themselves with the barriers that Apple puts up for iOS developers.

But that does not mean that quantity should prevail over quality, since in the end users get tired of installing apps unstable that even make you want to leave a comment to complain and score as low as possible.

So this move by the Mountain View company also serves to regain the trust of users Because we've all come across some time with awful software. The one that lasts on our smartphone as long as it takes us to realize that the installation has been an error.