also: You should count the time spent on the app. It is possible 2 apps have the same ranking specified in the blog post, but users spend 10 seconds vs. 30 minutes or more per day on the other.
On Aug 29, 1:55 pm, anatoly <anato...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1) Suppose the app has many pages, you can either load each page in > ajax or reloading with parameters. > ajax is preferred from the user perspective but is not counted as > rendering, which could be easily faked also to boost the score. > > 2) Because of recent changes I doubt there is any value for profile > rendering anymore. > > 3) Also: I didn't see any weight for activities published. Why not? > Orkut should count unique activities published (per user per activity > content) and add to the total score accordingly. > > On Aug 27, 1:44 am, Alex Porto <alex.itaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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%2bunsubscrib...@googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.-Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
