How does Genius work?

[fowareRep]

Is there a secret to the mechanics? Or is it based on keywords, title, description, etc.? App sales get helped a lot if you have positive involvement in the Genius tab.

It seems that every day my app Water Your Body gets a new set of apps it's linked to. Is this the case for anyone else?

 

[pnt101]

genius uses what you downloaded before while it is on to see what other apps are similar to the one you got.

 

[fowareRep]

genius uses what you downloaded before while it is on to see what other apps are similar to the one you got.

I'm not a customer of Water Your Body, I'm the developer. My question is, how does it recommend similar apps? Is there a way we can manipulate it.

 

[globalist]

I have a strong suspicion- based on all the unrelated crap it is suggesting for most of my purchased apps- that it is merely looking for the same app store category (e.g. books, business, education, entertainment).

 

[Pravda]

Had it turned on for the past few weeks, haven't been intersted in any recommendations so fay.

Have no clue why, but it really bugs me that i can't turn the Genius option off.
Its always there....
I wonder why Apple does not give you an option to have Genius off.