The market does this by default already....
They only have roughly 22 categories, and there are 70,000 apps... which
means roughly 3,000 apps per category, and they only show 800...
If your app is in the bottom half of your category... it's effectively
not there :).
Not to say the Market works well at all.... but in this case it's
filtering out the worst of the worst by default :).
But, as long as the Market is the only game in town, it's probably not
possible for Google to filter it because they are effectively a monopoly
and not allowing any app would be a PR nightmare. Apple doesn't really
have the same problem because they are not even trying to claim any kind
of openness.
Sincerely,
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On 06/10/2010 1:08 PM, Kumar Bibek wrote:
Agree, but before removing such an app, Google should atleast intimate
the dev the reason, else, it won't be fair for the developer. And for
this, someone will definitely have to checkout the app in person,
before taking it down.
Also, if Google wishes to include such a condition in Terms and
Conditions, say for example, if you app has 2000 downloads with avg
rating of 1.5 stars, your app will be automatically removed, I am not
sure, if all the devs would like this.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:33 AM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com
<mailto:treking...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com
<mailto:coomar....@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yep, but this might not be a fool proof method. Say, a
competitor dev can easily go and mark a new entrant as spam,
and leave negative comments. 15-20 such comments and spam
flags would obviously be a disadvantage for the new app.
Of course, but in my mind it would take a considerable amount of
"votes" to get one ejected - certainly more than 15-20, which
still would require a dedicated effort by either a lot of
individual competitors or a single company instructing their
employees to use such tactics, which one would hope is the
exception, not the norm.
And of course there would be other criteria. For example, if one
developer has 200+ apps, with an average rating of 2 stars and
each app has been flagged as spam at least 100 unique times over
the course of time, it's fair to assume they're worthless spammers.
I'm sure some clever Google Engineer could come up with a fairly
reliable algorithm for Market spam detection.
A "20% time project", perhaps?
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