The problem is amplifying: I noticed more gadgets are disappearing from the directory. Now checking for the gadgets with most users, we can see that the top of the list is a LabPixies gadget with 149K (Calorie Calculator). None of the large audience gadget from Google is listed anymore.
Jerome On Jan 19, 5:04 am, ty <[email protected]> wrote: > the number of our gadgets disappearing from the directory has been > increasing throughout the day. now almost all of our gadgets are > showing "Not submitted to directory" in the dashboard. This doesn't > seem to be a dashboard related problem since the gadgets are indeed > can't be found in the directory through search or browse and their > user stats are showing <100 when located manually. Yet, user stats > seem to be correct on the dashboard. User stats also show correct > values when browsed author page on iGoogle. > > This seems to be affecting all gadgets including Google's own. For > instance, the popular Google Finance Portfolios gadget is nowhere to > be found on the directory and is showing <100 > users.http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=www.google.com/ig/module... > > We do not want to resubmit the gadgets to the directory not to > overwrite something that we're not supposed to... (we resubmitted only > one; it gained its user count and visibility through search; however > seems like its ranking was lost) > > Hopefully we'll hear from Google on this soon. > > On Jan 18, 6:59 pm, Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > same here... > > > On Jan 18, 6:47 pm, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am having the exact same issue as everybody else. My 100K User > > > gadget disappeared today, and is not reporting <100 users, and doesn't > > > show up in the directory. I tried resubmitting out of desperation. > > > > On Jan 18, 11:53 am, ty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Many of our gadgets are showing "Not submitted to directory" in the > > > > iGoogle Gadget dashboard today. They can't be found on the directory > > > > as well and are showing <100 users when located manually. Some of > > > > these gadgets are quite popular and were handpicked by Google to > > > > display on a country iGoogle default page or included in the "editor's > > > > pick list" > > > > > We're not resubmitting them to the directory for now and hoping to get > > > > an official response on this before we take any action. > > > > > The issue on the tracker has been there for quite a long time but not > > > > sure if the issue tracker is being used anymore by Google. > > > > > On Jan 18, 11:14 am, Jerome <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I had a look at the issue tracker. I found an issue matching exactly > > > > > what we are talking > > > > > about:http://code.google.com/p/igoogle-legacy/issues/detail?id=628 > > > > > If you are affected, please "Star" this issue, and add a note to list > > > > > a few gadgets which are impacted. > > > > > > Hopefully, it will help getting a fast resolution on this issue. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Jerome > > > > > > On Jan 18, 5:04 pm, tintin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > After submitting again the gadgets that disappeared, they came back > > > > > > after a few hours but they lost their position in the directory :- > > > > > > ( some were in the first pages. > > > > > > > I would appreciate also that the Google team takes more care of > > > > > > those > > > > > > problems because we work hard to create this content and it would be > > > > > > nice from them to help us more. > > > > > > > On Jan 18, 4:59 pm, Jerome <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Tintin, > > > > > > > > Yes, it seems this has been going on for several weeks now. I have > > > > > > > been unaffected so far, but today I have noticed my most > > > > > > > successful > > > > > > > gadgets being no longer listed. It would be great to have a > > > > > > > Googler > > > > > > > commenting on this issue... > > > > > > > > Jerome > > > > > > > > On Jan 18, 9:51 am, tintin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I know that some of you had this problem recently. Now it's my > > > > > > > > turn. > > > > > > > > Several of my gadgets (my most successful ones!) disappeared > > > > > > > > from > > > > > > > > directory. I submitted them again, hoping to see them back in > > > > > > > > the list > > > > > > > > at their prior positions. Does anybody know what is happening?
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