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A change in the algorithm for the search in the Android market is literally killing top applications, making them very difficult to discover. It's paradoxical
by espinchi 15y ago
A change in the algorithm for the search in the Android market is literally killing top applications, making them very difficult to discover.
It's paradoxical that this comes from the #1 search engine.
- ompemi 15y agoWe've had a decrease in the number of downloads since 1st July of 50%. Our app cannot be found by its name. This is incredible.
- ern 15y agoIt's paradoxical that this comes from the #1 search engine. Not the first time something like this has happened. Their Groups search was broken a few years ago as well, and it took some effort to get them to finally fix it: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/
- espinchi 15y agoWe launched a new application just when this issue started: our application didn't appear in any search. Then it finally got indexed, and our download rate doubled. From 1st of July, it halved again. This is a screenshot of our stats, here showing the number of new users per day: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1581166/new%20users%20drop%20after%20search%20algorithm%20change.PNG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1581166/new%20users%20drop%20after%2... We didn't even start to monetize it, but it has certainly taken much of the fun off of developing it. This must have been a very big hit on some other developers.