Google Just Rocked Nearly 1% Of Search Queries With A Panda Refresh

Google announced that it has pushed a new data refresh for the Panda update, which originally launched in February of last year. This is the second such refresh this month. On June 12, Google tweeted ...
Google Just Rocked Nearly 1% Of Search Queries With A Panda Refresh
Written by Chris Crum
  • Google announced that it has pushed a new data refresh for the Panda update, which originally launched in February of last year. This is the second such refresh this month.

    On June 12, Google tweeted that a refresh was rolling out, which affected less than 1% of queries in the U.S. and 1% worldwide. Now, they’ve tweeted again, saying:

    On a somewhat related note, one webmaster claimed to have recovered from Google’s Penguin update over the weekend. A Google spokesperson tells us that there was no Penguin refresh that they’re aware of. When we saw WPMU recover from Penguin, it had happened as Google rolled out a refresh.

    To learn more about the difference between an algorithm update and a data refresh, see what Google’s Matt Cutts has to say about it here.

    Image: Pandara – The Heavy Metal Panda! (YouTube)

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