Although the online version of the Android Market, is still inconvenient and almost useless, Google made one small, but important improvement – category selection. This is a small step in the right direction, and, hopefully, one day Market will become similar to the AppStore and provide users with advanced features.

When you open the Market web page, you will not only see three tabs with the featured,  top free and top paid applications, but will now also be able to view categories. Categories are only available in top free and top paid tabs. When selecting a category, you will be presented with the best applications from this category in the left pane. Once you select an application you are interested in, its description and screen shots will be shown in the right pane. Quite simple and elegant solution.

I’m hoping that Google will make few more improvements to the website before the Google I/O conference.

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