Search the store for "face music" returns irrelevant results

Originator:percysnoodle
Number:rdar://18265234 Date Originated:8th Sep 2014
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:App Store Product Version:
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
The search results when searching the app store for "face music" generally include faces, but it's not until the tenth result that any of them have any musical content.  The seventh result is a clone of the game Threes, which has nothing to do with either!

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the App Store on an iPhone or iPad. (I used an iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1)
2. Tap the 'Search' tab
3. Enter 'face music' into the text field
4. press 'Search'

Expected Results:
All of the returned results should be relevant to both search terms.

Actual Results:
The top 10 results are:
1. Morfo - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music'
2. FaceFilm  - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music'
3. Morfo - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music', again
4. Guess The Brand Game - no relevance to either term
5. Guess The Music Artists - negligible relevance to either term
6. Crazy Motion - no relevance to either term
7. 2048 Plus Unlimited UNDO - a clone of a clone of a clone with no relevance to either term
8. Guess Who Celebrity Quiz - negligible relevance to either term
9. Fame Face - no relevance to 'music'
10. Dance with me - Sets faces dancing to music.

Comments

Response from Apple

Their comment:

Engineering has provided the following feedback regarding this issue: We believe this issue has now been addressed through changes made our end. Please verify, and update this report with your results. Please let us know whether the issue is resolved for you by updating your bug report.

My reply:

Thank you for getting back to me.

The top 10 results are now: 1. Morfo - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music' 2. Crazy Motion - an app which inserts faces into videos 3. Morfo - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music', again 4. Guess The Brand Game - no relevance to either term 5. Guess The Music Artists - negligible relevance to either term 6. FaceFilm Pro - a face morphing app with no relevance to 'music' 7. 2048 Plus Unlimited UNDO - a clone of a clone of a clone with no relevance to either term 8. Animate Me - an app which inserts faces into videos 9. Crazy Flamenco - an app which inserts faces into videos 10. Facetastic - a slideshow app with no relevance to 'music'

These are barely any better - although I do now understand why 'Crazy Motion' might appear, and it has climbed slightly - there are still no apps in that list which genuinely deal with faces and music. The Threes clone still appears in the list despite having no place there at all.

By percysnoodle at March 12, 2015, 9:48 a.m. (reply...)

App store discovery

This is really broken

By panosladas at Dec. 16, 2014, 11:51 a.m. (reply...)

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