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29083011397778 • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Competitors on Apple's App store can pay to show up when consumers search for the app they're after. To counter-act this, some apps will pay to have their app show up, as an ad, after you search explicitly for them

Meaning that, due to and capitalist incentives and double-dipping from tech companies, what you're searching for may actually be what's advertised