Well, the basics of how the Page rank algorithm works are known, while how Market's popularity works is a complete mystery.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think Google will give out how it calculates the 'popularity' > ranking, like it won't give out the algorithm for its 'page rank' > calculation. They probably do this to avoid people gaming the > calculations. > > I think it is based not only on total items sold and user-rating, but > also on installed base (=(total downloads - uninstalls)/total > downloads) and probably some other factors as well. > > On Apr 15, 2:41 pm, Mattaku Betsujin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I am a bit confused about how the Market calculate the "popularity" for the >> apps. For example, I dont' understand why one app, with 5000-10000 >> downloads, rated 3.51 with a total 68 reviews, is considered more popular >> than another app, with 10000~50000 downloads, rated 4.47 with a total of 398 >> reviews. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
