Having a year's worth of downloads doesn't save you. My app, Custom Launcher Icons used to come up pretty high for every relevant search phrase. Since July 1, I'm buried under lots of very similar apps with lower/fewer ratings, less downloads and less relevancy than my own. I'm ok with competition, but this is getting silly.
I've been reassured by a Googler that they are working hard on fixing search, and we will see a fix 'soon.' In the mean time, I'm selling less than half per day of what I was selling prior to July 1st. Jon F Hancock On Jul 14, 1:27 pm, Leo <allway...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, if you are already entrenched with over a year's worth of > downloads you are good. But if you want to develop a new app don't > even bother if that search term has tons of free apps because your > entry will be way deep where you will never get any exposure. > > The problem is you can't search for just pool game apps. If you type > pool you are saddled with > > swimming pool, pool screen savers, pool this pool that and all sorts > of nonsense upto 80-100 results. > > Can't they just put an option for sports games category there or free > and paid apps separation or just copy the adwords algorithm right over > here replace clicks with downloads? > > On Jul 14, 12:41 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I tried it on both my Nexus One and the web-site and on both I see these > > apps as the top 5: > > pool master pro > > 3d pool master pro > > pool break lite > > touch pool 2d lite > > carl's pool > > > I have been scrolling for a while, but haven't hit upon the poolitalia apps. -- 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
