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The "Hummingbird" update was the first major update to Google's search algorithm since the 2010 "Caffeine" search architecture upgrade, but even that was limited primarily to improving the indexing of information rather than sorting through information. [3]
We applaud Google for consistently making updates to reward the sites who are putting the work in and doing things the right way. Here are common themes that we see across these sites:
Mobilegeddon is a name for Google's search engine algorithm update of April 21, 2015. [1] The term was coined by Chuck Price in a post written for Search Engine Watch on March 9, 2015. The term was then adopted by webmasters and web-developers.
In order to cut costs, and remove the need for these tedious tasks, many companies started to automate the marketing process with AI. In 2015, Google released its most recent algorithm known as RankBrain, which opened new ways to analyzing search inquiries. It's used to accurately determine the reasoning and intent behind users searches. [6]
Search algorithm update: Google updates its algorithm to introduce a penalty for websites with too many ads "above the fold". The update has no name, but some SEOs use "Top Heavy" to describe the update. [10] [122] 2012: February 27: Search algorithm update: The update, codenamed Venice, is announced as part of Google's end-of-February 40-pack ...
Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", [ 1 ] in particular " content farms ", [ 2 ] and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.
The Penguin algorithm was created to eliminate this type of abuse. At the time, Google clarified its definition of a "bad" link: “Any links intended to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme.” With Penguin, it wasn't the quantity of links that improved a site's rankings but the quality.
Google Penguin is a codename [1] for a Google algorithm update that was first announced on April 24, 2012. The update was aimed at decreasing search engine rankings of websites that violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines [2] by using now declared Grey Hat SEM techniques involved in increasing artificially the ranking of a webpage by manipulating the number of links pointing to the page.