For the last two years, Google has been showing Android
users relevant content from apps they have installed on their phones and
tablets. Now, it’s also bringing this feature to iOS users and apps.
Last month, Google started showing results from Android apps
that users didn’t have installed on their phones, something it will now also do
for iOS users. Just like on Android, this new feature will bring a whole new
app discovery mechanism to Google Search for iOS users.
As Google’s senior director of its developer product group
Jason Titus told us, there is only so much integration Google can do for iOS
users because it can’t know exactly which apps you have installed on your
iPhone or iPad. Titus, however, also tells us that the company is working with
an initial set of partners to make sure that the experience is as seamless as
possible.
That being said, other interested developers are being
provided with information on how to set up their app to be included in app
indexing when the technology becomes more broadly available. Google shared
instructions on how to do this on a blog post it published this morning.
Developers who want to have their iOS app indexed by Google will have to add
deep linking support, then make sure it’s possible to return to Search results
with one click, and provide deep link annotations on their site, says Google.
In addition, they’ll also need to let Google know they’re
interested in having their app included by filling out an online form here.
However, note that simply filling out the form doesn’t guarantee that Google
will begin indexing your app; the company will be rolling out the technology to
app publishers on its own terms.
Google says the indexed links from an initial group of apps
it’s been working with will begin appearing on iOS in the Google search results
in both the Google App and in Chrome for signed-in users worldwide in the weeks
ahead.
Source From:- http://techcrunch.com/
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