Re: [android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-12 Thread Richard Leggett
Something weird is going on here, for example if you search on the Market website for twitter you get the official app, and also games like Radiant HD, but you don't get TweetDeck which has Twitter in the title and does appear as the 2nd related app for Twitter (official). Very strange. On 12

Re: [android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-12 Thread Jon F Hancock
Come to think of it, Radiant HD popped to the top of the list when I searched for Facebook the other day. I think it is because Radiant HD describes itself as being able to share top scores on Facebook. It still shouldn't show up above Facebook though. For a long time, my app, LauncherPro

Re: [android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
Can someone get into google, figure out what sort of algorithm they are using, so we can adjust our apps descriptions to always appear at the top? On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jon F Hancock jonfhanc...@gmail.comwrote: Come to think of it, Radiant HD popped to the top of the list when I

[android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-12 Thread Nathan
On Feb 12, 10:37 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone get into google, figure out what sort of algorithm they are using, so we can adjust our apps descriptions to always appear at the top? Traditionally, their algorithm hasn't been that complicated. You could pretty much

[android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-11 Thread JonFHancock
Getting a little cynical these days, huh TreKing? ;-) From market.android.com, the search results are pretty good for both those search phrases. trail map brings up two apparently decent trail map apps first. English news brings up news apps. Most of them cover foreign topics, but they are in

[android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-11 Thread Nathan
On Feb 11, 1:19 pm, JonFHancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote: Getting a little cynical these days, huh TreKing? ;-) These days? Sorry, TreKing's assessment of the Market search is adequate. The mere fact that they are tweaking it might mean it *could* get better. And the Android Market team

Re: [android-developers] Re: Poor relevancy in Android market since yesterday.

2011-02-11 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: On Feb 11, 1:19 pm, JonFHancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote: Getting a little cynical these days, huh TreKing? ;-) These days? LOL - you took my response :-P