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What does a position mean — is it a rank?

A position is an ordinal in the results Apple returns for a search, out of roughly 190 to 200 results in total, on the day we looked.

In the top 25 that ordering is stable enough day to day to be worth calling a rank. Below that it moves around for reasons that have nothing to do with the apps involved, so a position of 140 and a position of 160 are not meaningfully different and we do not present them as if they were.

An app that does not appear at all is outside those ~190 results — not absent from the App Store, and not necessarily far away. It is simply past where we can see.

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