We have the same issue (along with a number of other developers) One of our popular gadgets is no longer visible in the directory (i.e., can't be found when searched or browsed), although it can be found through the authors page and can be added to iGoogle through the individual gadget page. The gadget is also listed in the "Developer Dashboard" as "in directory" (with working stats).
The issue is especially disturbing because the gadget would have been listed on the first page of "most users" in its category given the size of its current user base. Now we don't have access to that promotional opportunity. Worse yet, there are a number of copies of this gadget (others copied the source code of our gadget as-is and submitted as a new gadget under their name) and those are still visible and accessible in the directory, which is not that fair. There is an open ticket regarding this issue that you may want to "star" at: http://code.google.com/p/igoogle-legacy/issues/detail?id=628&q=100K&colspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Summary%20Status However no official response from Google (that we know of) on this yet If others have more information, please chime in Thanks On Dec 25 2009, 9:39 pm, artistaday <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to find out why our gadget (www.artistaday.com/aad29.xml) > is no longer showing up in the ig directory. When we look in the > gadget dashboard, it indicates that the gadget has been in the > directory since July 16th, 2008. The gadget has nearly 700,000 users > today and at one time had 730,000 users. You can still find it with > the url (http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=www.artistaday.com/ > aad29.xml) and if you search by author (http://www.google.com/ig/ > directory?type=authors&[email protected]) > > If we are doing something wrong we want to fix. Please let me know why > we dropped from the directory or at the very least how to remedy it. > At this point we are going on a month and I just want to figure it > out. > > Thanks, > Artistaday.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" 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/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
