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Origin2019

The traffic was in the reviews

2019: what Google Play was already indexing while everyone ignored it.

In 2019 I wrote that Google Play quietly mines user reviews for keywords — including the competitor names, abbreviations and localized titles players type but a developer is barred from using. Sentiment everyone treated as noise was already feeding search and browse traffic, for free. Almost nobody read it that way. Years later that one observation is what a whole company runs on. The edge wasn’t a tool nobody had — it was reading something everyone already had.

Takeaway

The asset your competitors ignore is often the one the platform already indexes. Reread your reviews — the market is naming you in them.