"Every month, more than 2 billion users from over 190 countries visit the Google Play Store to browse and discover new apps and games. As part of making Google Play a great discovery experience, we continue to increase our focus on quality. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be updating our featuring and ranking logic to further prioritize high quality apps and games with strong technical performance and engaging content."
Lol how this can work, if apps is not indexing??? As I said I work with google play apps from 2015 years. I know all the system and aso. I manage to get 1,5 million downloads, other apps have 200k-500k downloads. I know my system, all the time I choose good keywords as I work in same niche and I know them good. After one week I start to get all details which keywords rank best, sometimes other keywords start to rank better than my planet. After this I need to redo again aso to boost best ranked keywords.
12 days passed. My app won't rank with any keyword. I event cannot find it using package name... All aso tools show blank for any ranking... I have few 5 star reviews from my friends as I'm doing like this all the time, but google play indexed only one. I`m boosting my installs using my old well ranked apps.
First month is crucial for new apps, as you can get inside top new trends, later is only organic by keywords. So as they are greedy best option is to order ads pay loads of money to adsense and get installs... And there is 0 competition, you can make super useful app, give everything free, without ads for first half years, you will not gonna rank, as they just won`t index it.