I think, overall, this is a good thing. Otherwise, good new apps will never come to the top because they will be buried on the bottom forever. Old (good) apps will stay on top for ever.
If the new app is not that good, it should sink to the bottom gradually. On Oct 7, 1:52 pm, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
