Not in my case. All these visible metrics are in my app's favour (compared to apps immediately above):
Rating Downloads Number of ratings Number of comments Number of comments recently The only things I can think of is the feedback the user gives when uninstalling or the Active Installs %... On 16 July 2010 16:09, Shane Isbell <[email protected]> wrote: > There could be all sorts of reasons for this. For example, google may be > increasing the visibility on the app based on user comment activity and > detail views, so even a lot of 'This sucks' comments helps it out. Do these > crapps with better visibility have a lot more comments? > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Kaj Bjurman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Probably not, I updated my application less than 1 week ago, and had >> another release a month prior to that. >> >> >> On 16 Juli, 10:16, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: >> > (Also, apologies for continuing the tangential discussion) >> > >> > Same thing happening to one of my apps. Even though the download count >> > is increasing healthily (and a 4.5 rating), I think its because I >> > haven't updated it for a couple of months. >> > >> > Could that be it? >> > >> > On Jul 16, 8:41 am, Kaj Bjurman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > > (Sorry for the hijacking) >> > >> > > I don't agree at all. I don't have a clue on how Google apply their >> > > sorting, but the result is neither sorted by rating nor downloads. I >> > > got an app with 4.39 in rating, and about 77000 downloads. >> > >> > > I now did a market search of parts of my application name, and my >> > > application came rather low in that search, and there were many apps >> > > with a rating of 2-4 and much fewer downloads that had a higher >> > > ranking, and didn't even contain my search criteria in the name. >> > >> > > I think Market search sucks big time. >> > >> > > On 15 Juli, 23:53, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, TreKing <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > > Your definition of "filter" confuses me. >> > >> > > > I apologize for the confusion. I meant it in the sense of "sorting" >> > > > more than filtering. Low quality Android apps appear near the >> bottom >> > > > of the lists while higher quality apps appear closer to the top. >> The >> > > > filtering occurs when the user gets tired of scrolling down. >> > >> > > > -- >> > > > Greg Donald >> > > > destiney.com | gregdonald.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) > http://apps.facebook.com/zappmarket/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
