I've brought this same issue up in the past, I think the rankings are not real, they are just made up by someone who chooses the app. I dont think there are any actual numbers be involved here.
-niko On Oct 8, 8:12 am, Jason Van Anden <[email protected]> wrote: > If this is the case, over in the Entertainment category it seems that > a lot of people with Android devices just can't get enough of (or be > without) the "Step Brothers Soundboard". > > j > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Roland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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-Hidequoted 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
