(Also, apologies for continuing the tangential discussion) Same thing happening to one of my apps. Even though the download count is increasing healthily (and a 4.5 rating), I think its because I haven't updated it for a couple of months.
Could that be it? On Jul 16, 8:41 am, Kaj Bjurman <kaj.bjur...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Sorry for the hijacking) > > I don't agree at all. I don't have a clue on how Google apply their > sorting, but the result is neither sorted by rating nor downloads. I > got an app with 4.39 in rating, and about 77000 downloads. > > I now did a market search of parts of my application name, and my > application came rather low in that search, and there were many apps > with a rating of 2-4 and much fewer downloads that had a higher > ranking, and didn't even contain my search criteria in the name. > > I think Market search sucks big time. > > On 15 Juli, 23:53, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Your definition of "filter" confuses me. > > > I apologize for the confusion. I meant it in the sense of "sorting" > > more than filtering. Low quality Android apps appear near the bottom > > of the lists while higher quality apps appear closer to the top. The > > filtering occurs when the user gets tired of scrolling down. > > > -- > > Greg Donald > > destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
