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Being a dev myself this is def going to hurt us developers because it seemed we could all come together in the forums and compare/contrast problems with each other.

The best thing would us to migrate to another forum where developers can brainstorm together. Is there any forum that all devs are moving too?

yeah same here. don't get me wrong i think its pretty neat and even have the duck app on my droid.

i guess its hard for me to switch since EVERYTHING i do is with g ( email, search, google+, etc.)

its more a convienience thing for me. but yeah i think it def is a bigger following on tech sites in relation to the average person.

its crazy that through marketing and all the push DuckDuckGo is getting that they only get searched 250,000 times a day.

With the hundreads of millions of searches that go on everyday you would think they could pull a little bit more.

I guess it truly is hard for people to change who they search with after all is said and done.

thanks for sharing the numbers!! always interesting

one love

really? it was meant in a non offensive way but wouldnt want to offend the sensitive..my bad

this is so true. i was thinking the exact thing especially in all his pics on techcrunch.

perception is everything and all those pics give the reader a different image for sure. more cocky, im the man kind of image.

its just that the pics dont seem right for the situation.

on a side note...i think hes a good looking dude (no homo of course lol)

i think i bought your plugin ;)

what is that wordpress review plugin everyone uses?

I know from a couple months ago hearing the founder of omniture Josh James talk about changing a button and color to a homepage. He said it caused his client to grow significantly and caused sales to go up 15-20% almost overnight creating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

The website they helped fix was still in its beginning years. Their client was ebay. I wouldn't be suprised if this was the website he's talking about.

I'm also an android developer and have experienced all these problems in the recent weeks. Here is my take on the following points:

#3 seems like its in the new market and hopefully google will fix this problem soon because it makes no sense at all. Its def a new bug in this transition to the new market that goog is probably aware of.

#4 google support has always been horrible. try calling the android market reps in support. the more devs call and express bugs they can usually foward issues to the dev team. Also stalk people on the android team on quora/twitter/google+. this works too! tried and tested ;)

#1 stats have always been bad. they go up and down and don't work for large periods at a time. our stats froze for about 2 weeks. hopefully this doesnt effect our ranking but with the secret algorithm we will never know. luckily we use google analytics and other tracking methods to account for this.

#2 market search is prob the most stressfull thing we had to deal with. for the past two weeks nobody could find out app in the market. it simply just dissapeared. we had 1000's of downloads a day that went to under 100. this def hurt our revenue and app usage decreased due to the lack of new users. prob end up costing a couple thousand in revenue. luckily it seems like they are making an effort to fix this as today we started appearing again and the search results seem to be improving by the hour.

Is the market perfect? hell no! the android market is def bipolar and has alot of problems. For us we cant live with it cant live without it. the past couple of weeks have been crazy due to the all the problems our app was having with the search bugs, etc.

Hopefully as developers we can continue to help each other find ways to overcome the bugs and help google build a quality market. Having a market that works is def a win win situation that I'm hoping to be a part of.

On the flipside these bugs have caused me to develop IOS versions of my app which I probably woudlnt have done if these bugs didnt exist. So looking foward to try that new venue ;)

a good thing ive found because im facing the same issues is google and find memebers on the android team on google+/quora?twitter and let them know firsthand the problems

this has seem to work for me and escalates the prob very fast! :)

they are actually fixing the search algortithm due to the massive complaints they have gotten recently.

especially in the support forums. hes just stating the truth. i know because im experiencing the exact same thing.

appbrains search has always been solid!!

good job guys!!

not a seo issue at all.

the algorithm was totally broken. luckily for most of us they started fixing it yesterday and today.

i can totally understand this...we were getting 1000's of downloads a day down to 100 or so.

for an exact search on our app we were 50 out of 50 with the other results being totally unrelated.

it seems as of yesterday they sort of fixed the problem and were ranking first for our terms. have u seen any improvement?

the last 2 weeks have been stressfull!!

as an android developer myself...hes hit every point on!! im experiencing the exact same problems...its crazy!!

appbrain is actually pretty relevant on alot of their results. +1

the search algorithm in the android market is horrible. its been broken for almost two weeks now. when trying to find an app, alot of the results are returning unrelated results.

doing exact searches of apps which should show up first right now is a huge FAIL

for other developers on here....is the market search screwing up big time for your apps too?

it seems like search algorithm is broken and returning horrible spammy results or low quality apps when searching for exact name of a specific app.