Google Apps Marketplace – Developer Survey

The Google Apps Marketplace team would like to get feedback from the developer community on your experience with the Marketplace and what you think can be done to improve it.

Please fill out the survey below if you have an installable app on the Marketplace (using the Add it Now blue button), are actively building an installable app or previously had an installable app on the Marketplace.

Most questions are optional, so please provide the feedback most important to you even if you don’t have time to complete the whole survey.
 


 
We’d also like to offer the opportunity to speak 1:1 with the Google team about your Marketplace app. If you’re interested, please provide a proposed agenda at the end of the survey.

-Ryan, Scott, Steve and the entire Apps Marketplace team

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The Intelligent Business Apps with the Google Prediction API

The Google Prediction API exposes Google’s machine learning algorithms as a RESTful API for use by applications around the web. This allows developers to replace repetitive manual processes with automated and smarter code, saving users valuable time and preventing headaches. The Prediction API first launched in at I/O 2010 and the team recently added a number of enhancements that make it more powerful for many types of business applications.

What can the Prediction API do?

The basic job of machine learning is to recognize historical patterns in data and use those patterns to make intelligent predictions in the future.
 


 
Some great use cases:

  • Spam detection: Does your product allow users to submit content? Do some users abuse this opportunity by submitting spam? Instead of maintaining a large number of regular expressions trying to catch common types of spam, you can use the Prediction API to automatically detect it and react accordingly.
  • Sentiment analysis: Are you building a CRM that keeps track of exchanges with customers? You could use the Prediction API to analyze correspondence with customers and detect when a customer might be communicating with a really negative or positive tone. This can alert you to when you might need to improve a relationship or even start writing a customer success story.
  • Tagging & organizing: Does your application store a lot of unstructured content? You can provide organization for this content by automatically tagging it based on how your users have previously tagged similar content.
  • Message routing: If you have a CRM that needs to route leads to the most appropriate people or a helpdesk ticket system that needs to route tickets to the correct support team, the Prediction API can help. Instead of writing a set of rules for which leads or tickets get routed to which people, use machine learning to predict the routing based on historical patterns.

On example: We built a demo app that uses the Prediction API to predict what types of applications a company might want to add from the Google Apps Marketplace based on the demographics of the company and a sampling of previous install data.

You can also try out some pre-built demonstration models in the Hosted Model Gallery.

How does it work?

Simple process:

  1. Upload training data to Google Storage. Training data is formatted as a CSV file with the first column representing the result (categorical or real-valued) and the remaining columns representing separate features contributing to the result.Example for predicting the size of a person in meters:
    “Height in meters”, “Gender”, “Father’s height”, “Mother’s height”, “Country of origin”

    1.71,”Male”,1.74,1.62,”France”1.51,”Female”,1.61,1.50,”India”….
  2. Train a model based on the uploaded data. You only need to make a single REST call to start the asynchronous training process.
  3. Predict results based on new data
  4. (Optional) Tune the training model with new results. If you have new training data, you can now add it to your existing model to tune it.
  5. (Optional) Make your model available to others via the forthcoming Hosted Model Gallery.

You can find TRUSTe Data Privacy Certification for Marketplace Apps

When evaluating web apps, customers often ask for information about the vendor’s privacy policy and how their data is handled. To make it easier for customers to discover and understand this information, we’ve teamed up with TRUSTe to offer TRUSTed Apps Data Privacy Certification for Marketplace Apps. This new program is designed specifically to help vendors of installable apps better communicate their data privacy and handling practices to potential customers.
 


 
Certified apps will have the TRUSTe logo displayed on their listing page, as well as in search and category results pages, similar to the screenshot below.


When a customers wants to see more details, they click on the TRUSTe logo to view a customized privacy policy report, hosted on TRUSTe.com:

All installable Marketplace apps are eligible to apply for free certification for the first year, and can choose to renew at $300 per year per app thereafter.