§3.3.3 User’s history

55. Where relevant for meeting the requirements of Article 5, in particular in respect of the required description of the main parameters, providers could consider how and if so, to what extent certain factors that are not directly related to the goods or services that a user offers through the services in question, such as a user’s history or past performance, affect ranking. Illustrative example In mobile application stores, developers or publishers may be rated separately from their applications, so that, for example, a newly launched application of an experienced developer with an existing offer in that particular application store may perform better in ranking than the application of a newcomer developer. In this case, in as far as such factors constitute main parameters determining ranking, the provider concerned will have to ensure that business users understand that this is the case. The provider may, where relevant, also inform business users of possible ‘correction’ mechanisms, such as temporary boosting of newcomers’ apps.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07