No, the app just above mine in the search result has a rating of less than 3, and had something like 3 comments. Mine has more than 100 comments.
I checked when the last update of that application was done, and that was something like 200 hours ago, and mine was updated about 100 hours ago. My application is however older. I wonder if that makes any difference. On 16 Juli, 16:09, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: > There could be all sorts of reasons for this. For example, google may be > increasing the visibility on the app based on user comment activity and > detail views, so even a lot of 'This sucks' comments helps it out. Do these > crapps with better visibility have a lot more comments? > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Kaj Bjurman <kaj.bjur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Probably not, I updated my application less than 1 week ago, and had > > another release a month prior to that. > > > On 16 Juli, 10:16, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > (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<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket)http://apps.facebook.com/zappmarket/ -- 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
