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New third-party data suggests that changes made to Apple's App Store ranking algorithm

by bestlaptopbattery on Apr 20, 2011

That claim comes from Fiksu, a company that provides a "mobile app user acquisition platform," giving developers a way to gain visibility on Apple's App Store and the Android Marketplace. According to the company's data, which includes individual app rankings from the past year, Apple made a change just after midnight on April 14 to weigh some application categories more heavily than others.

"Downloads in certain categories are now weighted more heavily than others with respect to determining overall rank," the company said in an e-mail to CNET. "For example, apps in social networking were big movers in the overall rank charts, while apps in the games category did not appear to show the same gains."
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