If you used the search keyword “Twitter” as a test of the algorithm’s intelligence, you would have seen more relevant results after November 3rd than in the past, but popular paid applications like Tweetbot weren’t on the list. But following this newer change, the search results improved again. Not only did Tweetbot appear (it shot up to #4 in the search results, as Launch Center Pro developer David Barnard spotted yesterday), other well-known Twitter applications like Twitterrific (#5) also moved higher up the list, while Instagram finally disappeared from the returned list.

Apple’s App Store Gets A Smarter Search Engine

It seems they finally have gotten their shit (a bit) together.