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Google Chrome Web Store has just received a little change. As introduced in Chromium Blog, there are new top level categories and sub-categories in the Store, such as Business Tools.
This is certainly a move to help (and attract) corporate users. There are also new sub-categories, such as Shopping under Lifestyle. This is how Google described the benefits of these changes:
The new structure of the store will improve discoverability for apps. For example, users searching for a photo album app can now easily drill down to the “Photos” subcategory level and track down the app they are looking for. At the same time, apps assigned to a subcategory show up in the category page as well giving them wider exposure; an app in “Photos” will appear on both the “Photos” page and the “Entertainment” page.
From now on, an app would only be shown in the primary category the developer chose, to avoid confusion caused. It would, however, be shown in both the category and sub-category it belongs to.
Web app developers are certainly affected by this change because they have review the categories of their apps after this update. For web app users, I believe this brings easier app searching. The new top level categories and sub-categories are, in my opinion, much better and clearer than the original categorization.
Source Chromium Blog, via Chrome Story
