** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) => (unassigned)
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Title:
  Recommendations on their own screen are differently ordered from the
  home screen

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.12, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1

  1. On the home screen, scroll down to "Recommended For You".
  2. Opt in to recommendations, if you haven't already.
  3. Note the recommendations and the order in which they appear.
  4. Click "More".
  5. Note the first recommendations and the order in which they appear.

  What you see: On the standalone "Recommended For You" screen, the
  first recommendations are different and in a different order.

  What you should see: Both on the home screen and the standalone
  screen, the first 12 recommendations are the same and in the same
  order.

  This seems to be because on the standalone screen, the recommendations
  are sorted "By Top Rated" like a category or subcategory would be,
  with options to sort "By Name" and "By Newest First". But it isn't
  useful to sort recommendations by anything other than the strength of
  the recommendation, for exactly the same reason that it isn't useful
  to sort the "Top Rated" screen by anything other than rating: any
  other ordering would be dependent on how many applications were shown,
  which is an arbitrary number.

  So the "Recommended For You" screen should not have a sort menu, like
  "Top Rated" does not, and recommendations should be sorted by
  strength.

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