On: Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO

[qwerty456127]

Why the heck would Google itself need this kind of SEO junk?

Why not just let people search by app (and book) description text (does it really not work this way already?)?

[notatoad → qwerty456127]

Google needs that kind of SEO junk as much as anybody else who publishes in the play store, because somehow depsite google's general excellence at search the search function in the play store is still garbage.

[OriginalPenguin → qwerty456127]

Google has to be careful giving too much favoritism to their own products, because it invites regulation for abusing their monopoly.

So it's often better to just play the same SEO games for their own products that everyone else has to play.