Google says it will roll out the latest update to its Panda algorithm.
The company posted the news a few minutes ago on Twitter, saying this update will affect about one percent of search results.
New data refresh of Panda starts rolling out tonight. ~1% of search
results change enough to notice. More context: goo.gl/huekf
— A Googler (@google) July 24, 2012
By our count, this is Panda Update 3.9. The previous update, 3.8, occurred just about a month ago — on June 25th.
Panda rolled out initially in February 2011 and was designed to remove low-quality/thin content from Google’s search results.
- Panda 3.9 on July 24th affected 1% Search Terms (Current).
- Panda 3.8 on June 25th affected 1% Search Terms.
- Panda 3.7 on June 9th affected 1% queries in United States while less than 1% worldwide.
- Panda 3.6 on April 27th
- Panda 3.5 on April 19th
- Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
- Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
- Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
- Panda 3.1 on November 18th
- Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
- Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
- Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
- Panda 2.5 on September 28th
- Panda 2.4 in August
- Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd
- Panda 2.2 on June 18th
- Panda 2.1 on May 9th
- Panda 2.0 on April 11th
- Panda 1.0 on February 24th
