Use Google to search for iPhone apps

Just prepend your searches with:

site:itunes.apple.com/us/

For example put the following in Google’s search bar:

site:itunes.apple.com/us/app guitar pedal

This will yield a search results URL similar to this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:itunes.apple.com/us/app+guitar+pedal&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

I got the idea from a comment to Tim Bray’s blog post about the problems with finding good apps:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/07/18/How-to-run-an-App-store