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Re:Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple d... by leonidasv on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:29PM (#23504978)
You're assuming that just looking for the title is everything a search engine does when it's not.

It's easy to create and train a model to distinguish between brands and generic words by counting how many times a single word appears over app descriptions, for example - there are countless ways to do this. This, in turn, can neutralize the effect of naming your app after a generic word when it comes to search ranking.

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Re:Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple d... by im3w1l on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:19AM (#23506707)
How do you know it's not competitors putting the product in their descriptions enough times that it will count as generic so they can rank above? I mean you can solve that too I'm sure, but it starts becoming more complicated than sixothree originally suggested.
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