If u have have installed or deleted the gadget it don´t appear at category 
listings but at a search. ask a friend to browse for it with another account

Am Dienstag, 20. März 2012 16:34:06 UTC+1 schrieb Dave Pitman:
>
> Like it or not the gadget directory is still the single best place for 
> people to find gadgets. So it's really frustrating that I can't get an 
> answer to my questions about why it doesn't work. 
>
> At one time, our gadget had 850,000 users. But about a year ago, it 
> disappeared from the directory UNLESS you do a very specific search using 
> keywords. You can't browse the directory and find it even though you should 
> be able to. Nothing changed on our end but one day you couldn't browse and 
> find it anymore. 
>
> Here is what I mean:
>
>    - Search for "artist", 
>    http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=artist&dpos=top&root=%2Fig. You 
>    see our gadget Artist a day at the top. 438,000 users.
>    - Now, do that same search in the lifestyle category, 
>    
> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=artist&dpos=top&root=/ig&cat=lifestyle. 
>    We still show up. So that means it's in the lifestyle category.
>    - Without a search, just browse the lifestyle category and sort by 
>    most users, 
>    
> http://www.google.com/ig/directory?dpos=top&root=/ig&cat=lifestyle&sort=users.
>  
>    With 438,000 we should be third, but we are no where to be found. 
>
> I only complain about this because without the ability to browse for 
> gadgets, which is how most people find them I suspect, our install based 
> has dwindled from 850,000 to less than 450,000 in a year. There may be 
> other factors in play, but for sure this doesn't help and it's clearly not 
> working properly. Can someone give me a reply to let me know if there is 
> something I'm doing wrong here or are we truly own our own?
>

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