Google Search Adds App Indexing Support in Safari on iOS 9
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By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 19 January 2016 11:08 IST
Google back in May introduced app indexing to iOS apps which showed iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users content from within mobile apps
straight from Google Search. The search engine giant is expanding the
feature to the Safari browser by making it compatible with HTTP deep
link standards for the latest iOS 9 OS version.
In other words, Google
has enabled app indexing with deep linking which will now show app
content in search results page of Safari in iOS 9. Google further
detailing the method has asked developers to add Universal Links to
their iOS app and then integrate with its SDK. The company expects that
users should start seeing app content in Safari on iOS by end of this
month.
In a Google+ post, the
company writes, "Getting your app content found on Google just got
easier. App Indexing is now compatible with HTTP deep link standards for
iOS 9, as it has been on Android from the beginning. That means that
you can start getting your app content into the Search results page on
Safari in iOS, simply by adding Universal Links to your iOS app, then
integrating with our SDK. With this improvement, we will no longer
support new integrations on iOS 7 and iOS 8. Users will start seeing
your app content in Safari on iOS at the end of October."
Google's
official App Indexing page notes, "The Google
App Indexing documentation for iOS 9 is available to the public. Our
systems will begin serving iOS universal links in mid-October. App
Indexing for iOS versions 7 and 8 is now deprecated and no longer
available for new integrations."
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