I've often wondered if the retention rate or the raw number of people that retained the application figured into the ranking. One can imagine two apps, one fewer downloads, but a higher retention rate ultimately having more "users" and perhaps being deserving a higher ranking.
Roland On Oct 7, 1:35 pm, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not arguing that it's not a good thing, just curious as to what would > make the apps with lower ratings/downloads be considered better, and worthy > of a higher spot :) > > Of course I'm biased with my own apps, but with a game thats (as far as I've > seen), one of the top 5 rated games on the market, with over 120k > downloads... Trying to figure out why games with 3.5* ratings, and 10k > downloads are sitting above mine. :) > > - Dan > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Streets Of Boston > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
