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.
It'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/
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%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.