One of the worst things about the Play market is the opaque way that search results are presented to users.
My experience has been that old, out-of-date apps, will appear higher in the list than newer apps. This is partcularly accute for apps that have a seasonal basis, for example sports apps for a football or other sporting code's season. Apps that were made for the last season, and then so obviously abandonded (not current for the next season) will appear ABOVE new apps. I guess these old apps somehow score higher on the algorithm, perhaps from the previous season's cumulative downloads plus the astro- turfed "reviews" for the previous seaon. Current season negative reviews do not seem to affect the ratings. This is an area where Google are almost criminally negligent. Try to get a response through the new "Market Support" system and all that happens is a robotic automated reply, if is not porn or copyright infringement they don't care. The point is that Apps that may be current, but somehow not "tuned" for the right keywords always appear lower in the list than the spam apps, and so users are unlikely to continue looking further in the list once they hit a clearly out-of-date, unsupported App in their search results. Why is Google so hopeless and biased in their search list algorithms in the Play market? -- 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.
