I was writing an article on App Store SEO and decided to mine the App Store search suggest to see if it could tell me anything about how users navigated the app store through search. The results are below. To discover this list I put the letters of the alphabet into the search engine to find popular queries around that letter. The result was a list of 260 keywords, 228 of which were unique. 

A few observations:

• The list is made up mostly of popular apps and developers of the apps, most of which are listed according to the application name or developer name, and not according to the query used to find them.
• Seems to be fresh content, as some of the apps are brand new
• Free is the most frequently used keyword, followed by lite
• In some cases (e.g. bible, drinking games (free), sudoku (free), dog whistler) no specific app is mentioned.

This list will likely change as the most popular app list changes, but marketers looking to understand what users are looking for in the App Store can use search suggest to help them get there.

App Store Search Suggest Keywords for Friday April 24, 2009

aim (free edition)

archers: bowman’s battle free

awesome ball

amazing x-ray fx^2 lite

aol

action bowling free

aroundme

arcade bowling™ lite

atomic fart free (funny, prank, joke, game and much more!)

aol radio

bubblewrap

backgrounds

babelgum

blackjack free

3d brick breaker revolution free

beer pong challenge

batter up baseball™ lite

bible

catcha mouse

crazy penguin catapult free

compass free

cube runner

the weather channel®

digital chocolate, inc.

the game creators

chillingo ltd

codify ab

cbs sports mobile

dictionary.com – dictionary & thesaurus

draughts free

dog whistler

dictionary.com

dots free

directv

drinking games free

deal or no deal: million dollar mission lite

dow jones & company, inc.

enormego

google earth

ebay mobile

epicforce

eyetricks

electronic arts

exploding spec

espn cameraman

epocrates

ebay inc.

f-mylife

sudoku (free)

facebook

flood-it!

flashlight

ferrari gt evolution: lite version

flipside5, inc.

free translator

finger sprint free

fuzz friend

galaga remix lite

google mobile app

google

the godfather

gameloft

mini golf 99 holes theme park free

girl wars (girls only!)

gunapp

heat pad – relaxing heat sensitive surface

touch hockey: fs5 (free)

hangman.

free hangman

john haney software

how to videos from howcast.com

huffingtonpost.com

high gloss

haunted

have2eat

idare

ihandy level free

ifighter lite

iguerilla lite

imob 15 respect points

ibowl

imob 40 respect points

I sniper lite

ihandysoft inc.

iheart radio

jonathan johnson and brian pratt

jellycar

jirbo, inc.

john e. hartzog

junpei wada

joost

john moffett

jared judd

kingdoms live – free for limited time

kindle for iphone

kanondrum

kazuho okui

kronos games

koi pond

knots

kevin calderone

keyvisuals

konami digital entertainment

labyrinth lite edition

lightsaber unleashed

lose it!

labpixies

racing live – free for limited time

lie detector advanced (free)

live poker by zynga

movies

myspace mobile

mobilityware

mood sense lite

mafia wars by zynga

mazefinger

yahoo! messenger

namco networks america inc.

ninjas

nba game time

ngmoco, inc.

nytimes

nba digital

night stand

nine inch nails

newton’s cradle classic

next mobile web

odasoft

optime software

orsome

ocarina

tap of war free

opentable

bank of america – mobile banking

bounce on lite

the oregon trail

pandora radio

pac-man lite

padadaz

playmesh

pandora media, inc.

pocket god

papijump

paper football by jirbo

public radio tuner

quickvoice recorder w/free voicemail

quetouch.com

andy qua

quicktip

q continuum

quick tap reflex -free

qq

quip

quick graph

pop quiz!

remote

removem (free)

ringtone recorder free ringtones

race wars san francisco

race wars

rbz apps

skype

shazam

sol free solitaire

shotgun free

storm8

skyworks

stickwars

sgn

stylem media

tap tap revenge 2

tap tap revenge

tapulous

tic-tac-touch: fs5 (free)

textfree lite

twitterfon

urbanspoon

wordsearch unlimited lite

usa today

units

undead live! Vampire werewolf overlord

uniwar

ustream viewing application

zombieville usa lite

virtual zippo® lighter

virtuesoft.com

vegas pool sharks lite

vampires live – free for limited time

vlingo – voice app

vault breaker full free

volkswagon polo challenge 3d

voicenotes

virtual villagers 2 lite

virtual villagers 2: the lost children

wsj – the wall street journal

word scramble by zynga

wings for cats

who wants to be a millionaire lite

whiteboard: collaborative drawing

webartisan

the weather channel interactive

webworks and applications

xcube lite

xbox achievement guide

xpressed

xtreme labs inc.

xcube labs

inside xbox 360

1337pwn xbox live friends application

amazing x-ray fx^2 pro

x-plane 9

yahoo!

yelp

yudo inc.

y! music

yellow pages

ypmobile

youniversal ideas

yo mama for a buck

yowza!!

zynga

the zumobi network

zombieville usa

zombie attack! Free

zintin

zentomino lite

zipcodes

zhdict