Google Penguin Update 3 Released

Google Penguin Update 3 Released, Impacts 0.3% Of English-Language Queries

Google’s Matt Cutts used Twitter this afternoon to announce that Google is launching the latest “data refresh” of its Penguin spam-fighting algorithm today and that it will affect searches across multiple languages.

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Minor weather report: Update of http://t.co/kcDiRUjc launching today. ~0.7% of English queries noticeably affected.

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Google Penguin Releases So Far

Here’s the list so far, showing when each Penguin update came out, the percentage of English-languages queries it was said to impact (other languages are also impacted, but we’re using English as a consistent baseline): Penguin 1: April 24, 2012 (3.1%) Penguin 2: May 26, 2012 (less than 0.1%) Penguin 3: Oct. 5, 2012 (0.3%) Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-penguin-update-3-135527