I thought that, by "rendering", they were counting how many times some user watches the app in profile or canvas. But, anyway, it would be good to know how this is done exaclty. It would be frustrating if some developers were allowed to use things like that to circumvent the algoritm and push their apps up in the listings.
Alex On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:54 PM, anatoly <anato...@gmail.com> wrote: > this algo completely doesn't make sense. > > example: > check out where Vila Mágica is placed in the directory > > with 1253099 weekly users > 4764702 total > > apps with 80K and 90K totals and less than 10K weekly are just above > it. > > my most popular app is #3 among all my apps with #2 and #3 are above > it by far. > > there are regular big jumps in the directory up and down while there > is not much change in traffic/installs/uninstalls. > > etc. > > Besides directory is one of the weakest sides of orkut platform. > > BTW, what do you mean by app "rendering"? > If my app heavily uses ajax and doesn't reload evry time - does this > mean I'm losing in rankings? > I thought that it is natural for apps in opensocial to use ajax a lot. > > > > > > > On Aug 26, 7:38 pm, "Prashant Tiwari (Google)" <p...@google.com> > wrote: > > If this subject has ever puzzled you, we think our latest blog might be > > of some interest to you: > http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/demystifying-app-ranking-crite.... > > > > ~Prashant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "orkut Developer Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<opensocial-orkut%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
