Marketplace is now replaced by a slightly more recognizable Windows Phone Store and along with that comes totally new look on the web store.
Design has already received a lot of praise and it indeed looks much better with that simplified design. Finding application should be easier as you see what applications blogs and others are talking about just now.
Search box has thankfully received big update as well and isn’t as meticulous on what you write.
First, the Search box is better, since it now relies on the Bing search engine to supply results. (If you follow our blogs closely, you know we’ve been rolling out a much improved backend for both the Windows Phone Store and Windows Phone Dev Center. The welcome addition of Bing’s search engine is part of this infrastructure upgrade.)
The new Search box makes it easier to:
First, the Search box is better, since it now relies on the Bing search engine to supply results. (If you follow our blogs closely, you know we’ve been rolling out a much improved backend for both the Windows Phone Store and Windows Phone Dev Center. The welcome addition of Bing’s search engine is part of this infrastructure upgrade.)
The new Search box makes it easier to:
- Find apps even if you make spelling mistakes or typos—for example, “Facebok” instead of “Facebook”.
- Find similar apps more easily. For example, type “guitar” and you’ll see relevant apps even if they don’t have “guitar” in the title.
- Finds apps in same genre. Type “health” to see apps related to dieting, exercise, and more.
Another cool thing about relying on Bing search algorithm is that it’s designed to learn from all the searches people do and will actually get smarter over time, returning more relevant search results. – Windows Phone Steam Blog
There’s new Spotlight feature where Microsoft showcases new apps that they themselves have handpicked.
Looking quite good. Unfortunately Finland seems to be in the process of updating as the Windows Phone Store is down as of when i’m writing this post. Now working in Finland.
Now when Windows Phone is reaching well over the 100 000 apps on the Windows Phone Store it’s essential that much of the trash and bait apps are kept out of sight. Apparently there’s still room to improve there in the new store.
