That's one thing we've thought about, definitely possible, just feels odd to have a heavily downloaded, extremely highly rated app slowly dropping off the charts to less downloaded, lower rated apps...
- Dan On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Felipemnoa <[email protected]> wrote: > > They are probably giving the latest data about your app more weight. I.e > the download rate of your app may actually be lower than a hot new app with > thousands of downloads. > > On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been trying to figure out how the rankings in Android Market are > calculated. > > One of my apps (Cestos), is in the action/arcade category, has a large > number of downloads (120k+), a large number of ratings (~4k), and a very > high average rating (4.64 according to cyrket, 4.5stars on the market). > > However, it is being beaten on the lists by many items with lower ratings > (many 4.0 and a bunch of 3.5), with lower download counts/ratings. I > imagine there's a good bit of other things that go into rankings, but having > one of the highest rated games on the market, and a good number of > downloads/ratings, and being down on page 3-4, with lower rated/downloaded > apps sitting higher up, makes me wonder a bit... > > Anyone have any insight? > > - Dan > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
