But I have a point to make on your WIDGET SEARCH.

Look at this widget (not mine ): ALL MY GOOGLE SERVICES (http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/229856/all-my-google-services)
it is very good. Perhaps the best in his category.

Now, it is competing with “old” widgets. If I search Google in the Ecosystem (http://eco.netvibes.com/search?q=google) the Top 3 have more than 20.000 downloads… The AllMyGoogle with 435 will never be able to recover …
The MOST POPULAR SEARCH works for comparable time laps.

Then, POPULAR is not well mesured by DOWNLOADED. I my self downloaded a lot and deleted also a lot since then.
Good Mesure would be: IN USE or EVEN USED in the last … days.
Even BEST RATED could be more helpfull then just downloaded.

In the end, The ECOSYSTEM Search as it is now, is just reinforcing old Widgets giving no visibility to new widgets. That way it prevents Netvibes users to access to them and in consequence that could lead for them to “less good” experience…

That could force Widget Producers to pay for better placement (good for revenues) but the Search result will not be better for Netvibes’ users (bad for users) !

It is the Yahoo search model (pay just for presence) against the Google one (pay to be near pertinence).

We know the winner…