Any app that updated on or around the 18th December lost 10 - 15% of their active installs in less than a day. Active installs is the largest component of determining ranking in the Android market and so these apps have dropped significantly in the rankings (mine from 2nd to 5th in category). The stats have never been restored and these apps are still much lower placed than before the market error occurred.
Google admitted this was an error on their part (see message from Dontae on link below) but have never reverted the stats to their correct values. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=4c5752ca3e5af4ff&hl=en Quoted below is the official response from Google 4 weeks ago : 'There was an issue impacting a limited number of developers that can be traced back to December 18th. Our team has implemented a fix that will return all impacted developers' Active User numbers to normal. We will remain vigilant in order to ensure that any data that does not automatically return to active user counts is properly applied. Please allow some time for this information to return to its normal state and per usual, be sure to let us know if anything irregular pops onto your radar.' -- 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
