In its early year, google only made a few updates in its algorithm. Now Google made thousands of updates every year for better user experience.
Most of these updates so slightly because of that they get unnoticed. But some major update gets impact on SERPs are as follows :
- Panda
- Penguin
- Pigeon
- Hummingbird
Following are the list of Google algorithm launches, updates, and refreshes that have rolled out over the years :
May 4, 2020
May 202 core update
Google search liaison Danny Sullivan announced by twitter that Google would be updating a broad core algorithm. After that about 90 minutes later, he announced the update was underway and take almost 2 weeks to completely rollout.
January 22, 2020
Featured Snippet Deduplication
Danny Sullivan confirmed by twitter that webpage in a featured snippet position will no longer be repeated in a regular page 1 organic listing. This change affected 100% of all search listing, worldwide
January 13, 2020
January 2020 Core Update
Danny Sullivan announced by a tweet that a broad core algorithm update was about to be released. Google provided the same guidelines as for all other broad core algorithm updates.
December 9, 2019
BERT (Worldwide)
Google’s Danny Sullivan tweeted that BERT was beginning its worldwide rollout, and included the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian Malay (Brunei Darussalam & Malaysia), Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.
October 25, 2019
BERT Update
Google announced the BERT update by saying that its the biggest change to google algorithm in last 5 years. BERT is used to better understand search queries. Accourding to Google this change both affect the search ranking and featured snippet
September 24, 2019
Broad Core Algorithm Update
Danny Sullivan announced via a tweet that a broad core algorithm update would be released within a few hours and it would take a few days to complete rolling out.
June 2, 2019
June 2019 Core Update
On June 2, 2019, Danny Sullivan informing via tweet that Google would be releasing a new broad core algorithm update. The next day Google confirm that update was live and would be rolling out to its various data center over the coming days.
March 12, 2019
March 2019 Core Update
Danny Sullivan confirmed via Twitter the release of a global broad core algorithm update. This update is important and one of the biggest updates in these years.
February 12, 2019
Valentine’s Day Update
Algorithm trackers and industry persons feel some short of unconfirmed updates from google that take place and affect search engines.
October 31, 2018
Unconfirmed Halloween Update
Algorithm trackers and webmasters found some changes around Halloween indication an unconfirmed Google update.
There are many updates before October 2018.
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