I find myself wanting to find URLs for apps in Apple’s two App Stores (the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store). I have been doing this using a special Google search which limited results to the site “itunes.apple.com” but today I realized I could make it much more specific and avoid some junk in the results (podcasts, music, etc that matched whatever keywords I was searching for).
Most of the time I know the name of the app that I am searching for, and Apple uses the app names in the <title> of their pages. They also include “on the Mac App Store” in the <title> for Mac apps, and “for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store” for iOS apps.
So by using “site:” and “allintitle:” I can restrict my results very narrowly, giving me excellent, specific results every time.
Results for the iOS App Store for: Echofon, The Incident, Crosswords
Results for the Mac App Store: Echofon, The Incident, Crosswords
Quix
Quix is a great “meta bookmarklet” which allows you to create search keywords. For example, I use ‘as’ to search the (iOS) App Store:
and ‘mas’ to search the Mac App Store:
Quix uses ‘%s’ to represent user input, so here are my Quix shortcuts:
iOS App Search
as http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=allintitle%3A+%s+iPhone+OR+iPad+site%3Aitunes.apple.com%2Fus&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= App Store Search
Note that I have specified the “US” store. You may want to change that if you use a different version of the store.
Mac App Store
mas http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=allintitle%3A+%s+%22on+the+Mac+App+Store%22+site%3Aitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2F&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= Mac App Store Search
Each of those should be one long line in your Quix file.
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