Google Play Store Secret - pub: Search Filter

Hey people!

Google Play Store has really accelerated its way to become the best place to search for new stuff. The humongous variety of app on Google Play Store has attracted innumerable people, to buy a Phone having Android Operating System in it. The multifarious Apps is the best thing, I like about the Android Operating System.

Today, I'd like to notify you about a special tip, quite like a Secret- the "pub:" Search Filter / Tag, that may help you have better Search Experience, by displaying important results from a particular Publisher on the Google Play Store.

If you're an Android User, the power of it, might already be know to you. The reason for a huge number of Apps is that the developers have been able to access the Pure Android OS for FREE. Therefore, people have easily been able to edit the edit and test them on the Android OS. Result: A lot of developers & Apps.

THE PUB: SEARCH FILTER

These Apps have been nicely presented on the Google Play Store, the App Section of which was formerly known as Android Market.The Google Play Store can be accessed and Apps' information can be viewed on PC too, on the Web Address: "play.google.com".

While browsing the Play Store, one might want to see Apps from a particular developer, like to view all Official Apps from Google itself on the Play Store, I'd want to see apps from the developer "Google Inc.". On PC, this can be done easily by clicking on the link for the developer, thus visiting the URL in the following format:

play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google%20Inc.

But on mobile phone, this becomes futile as Mobiles generally run Google Play Store in form of an App, where visiting a URL is not possible and therefore all apps from a particular developer cannot be viewed, by visiting the developer's URL.

To this, a remedy is provided by "pub:" Search filter on the Play Store. What you need to do is, on the Google Play Store, simply search something like:

pub:Google Inc.

where "Google Inc." can be replaced by the EXACT NAME of the Publisher, you want to view the apps of. By, Exact Name, I mean that you should care about case-sensitive (Upper & Lower Case different), Spaces, dots, etc.

This will display all the Apps of the Publisher, you've put the name of, in the Search results. Like in the above example, I'd view all apps from Google Inc. But only those apps will be displayed, which are compatible with your Android device.

To find the Publisher's name of a particular App, that you know, there are many ways. One of the best methods is to visit the App on the Google Play Store (either Web or Play Store App) and see just under the App's name Header to find the Publisher's name

That's it! I wish you liked my small tip.

ENJOY!!!