While I understand the anger here and do think Google have done a lot wrong, a lot of people complaining are making the assumption that apps that have been down

While I understand the anger here and do think Google have done a lot wrong, a lot of people complaining are making the assumption that apps that have been downloaded a lot should rank more highly. Does that necessarily hold? To me it seems a little self-reinforcing - whoever is at the top is more likely to be downloaded, which keeps them at the top. Certainly on the Android market, whoever was at the top of search results before was no good indication of quality either, so the search has gone from useless to useless. From a user-perspective we haven't lost much! And of course, if you make ANY change to rankings, the people that go down will of course be upset.