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| March 13 2025 |
Google Search
Google initiated the March 2025 Core Update, estimated to take up to two weeks to complete.
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| 2024 | Tenor began experiencing widespread spam with millions of crypto advertisement GIFs from a creator named 'Blazzord', causing usability issues across partner social media platforms. |
| December 12 2024 |
Google Search
Google released the December 2024 Core Update, which was completed within 6 days.
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| November 11 2024 |
Google Search
Google implemented the November 2024 Core Update, which was rolled out over 23 days.
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| August 15 2024 |
Google Search
Google rolled out the August 2024 Core Update, which extended over a period of 19 days.
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| March 5 2024 |
Google Search
Google releases March 2024 Core Update, combining Helpful Content Updates and implementing measures against scaled content abuse, site reputation abuse, and expired domain abuse.
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| 2023 |
Google News
Google announced it would block Canadian news sites from visitors in Canada in response to the Online News Act.
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| 2023 | A study by University of California, Berkeley and Northeastern University scholars finds that Google Books' digitization has led to increased sales of physical book versions. |
| October 18 2023 |
Google News
Confirmed cutting at least 40 jobs in the news division, while stating that these internal changes would not impact their misinformation and information quality work.
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| 2022 |
Google News
Spanish version of Google News reopened after Spain transposed the 2019 European Union copyright rule.
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| August 25 2022 |
Google Search
Google rolls out Helpful Content Update targeting content created primarily for search engine ranking rather than user helpfulness.
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| 2021 |
Google Shopping
The General Court upheld the €2.4 billion antitrust fine against Google, with an appeal still pending.
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| June 3 2021 |
Google Knowledge Graph
A Knowledge Graph box controversially identified Kannada as the 'ugliest language in India', causing significant public outrage from the Kannada-language community and a threat of legal action from the state of Karnataka.
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| 2020 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Dariusz Jemielniak published a book highlighting that most Google users are unaware that Knowledge Graph answers originate from Wikipedia, potentially reducing Wikipedia's popularity and ability to attract volunteers and fundraising.
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| 2020 |
Google Trends
Research published demonstrating Google Trends' ability to forecast employment growth in the United States at national and state levels with high accuracy, even predicting up to a year in advance.
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| 2020 |
Google Trends
Research highlighting the variability and potential unreliability of Google Trends data gained major media attention in Germany, cautioning about the risks of using the platform for predictive analysis.
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| October 2020 |
Google News
Google announced 'Showcases' program, paying publishers to curate featured news content in Google News and Discover, initially launching in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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| May 2020 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Google expands the Knowledge Graph to 500 billion facts covering 5 billion entities, demonstrating significant growth in its information repository.
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| 2019 |
PageRank
Google introduced new HTML attribute tags 'rel="ugc"' for user-generated content and 'rel="sponsored"' for sponsored content, which do not pass PageRank and prevent SEO link manipulation.
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| 2019 |
Google Trends
Tom Cochran from 720 Strategies conducted a study comparing Google Trends to political polling, examining the relationship between search volume and candidate popularity during the Democratic primary.
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| December 9 2019 |
Google Search
Google extends BERT natural language processing update internationally, implementing the algorithm across 70 languages.
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| May 2019 |
Google Shopping
Google announced a revamped Google Shopping experience at its Marketing Live event, integrating the existing Google Express marketplace into a new shopping platform.
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| May 2018 |
Google News
Google launched a revamped version of Google News featuring artificial intelligence capabilities to improve content relevance and user information discovery.
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| March 2018 |
Google Shopping
Google introduced Shopping Actions, a commission-based model allowing customers to shop across Google Assistant, Search, mobile, desktop, and Google Home devices using a universal cart.
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| March 27 2018 | Tenor was acquired by Google, with the company continuing to operate as a standalone brand. |
| October 2017 |
Google News
Replaced the 'first click free' program with a 'flexible sampling' model, allowing publishers to choose the number of free articles.
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| June 2017 |
Google News
Conducted a thorough redesign of the desktop version of Google News, focusing on making news more accessible with a card format for grouping related stories.
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| June 27 2017 |
Google Shopping
The European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, fined Google €2.4 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by abusing its market dominance in search engine results.
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| 2016 |
Google Panda
Matt Cutts, former head of webspam, commented that the Panda update was significant enough to be disclosed as a material impact on Google's earnings, despite potential revenue challenges.
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| June 2016 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Google reports the Knowledge Graph has grown to hold 70 billion facts and answers approximately one-third of the 100 billion monthly searches.
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| 2015 |
Google Panda
Panda was incorporated into Google's core algorithm, becoming a permanent part of the search engine's ranking system.
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| October 26 2015 |
Google Search
Google announces RankBrain, a machine learning-based engine that becomes the third most influential factor in search rankings.
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| September 29 2015 |
Google News
Changed the article access policy to limit free articles to three per day.
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| July 18 2015 |
Google Panda
Google initiated a 'slow rollout' of Panda 4.2 update, continuing the algorithm's evolution in assessing website quality.
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| April 21 2015 |
Google Search
Google implements mobile-friendly ranking update, demoting websites with poor mobile usability in mobile search results.
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| 2014 |
Google Knowledge Graph
The Register reported that Google's Knowledge Graph panels caused significant readership declines for Wikipedia by displaying direct answers from Wikipedia content in search results.
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| 2014 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Noted lack of Knowledge Graph for Jesus, despite having Knowledge Graphs for other major religious figures like Moses, Muhammad, and Gautama Buddha.
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| December 2014 |
Google News
Google shut down Google News service in Spain due to a new law requiring payment for news snippets.
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| October 2014 |
Google News
A group of German publishers granted Google a license to use publication snippets for free.
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| May 20 2014 |
Google Panda
Google released Panda 4.0 update, which significantly impacted website rankings by lowering positions for sites deemed 'low-quality', including content aggregators, rumor-based news sites, and price comparison websites.
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| March 25 2014 |
Google Panda
The Google Panda patent was officially granted, formalizing the algorithm's approach to site-wide ranking modifications based on content quality and link relevance.
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| February 2014 | Entrepreneurs David Macintosh, Erick Hachenburg, and Frank Nawabi founded the company initially named Riffsy. |
| 2013 |
Google News
Germany introduced ancillary copyright for press publishers following lobbying by news outlets.
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| August 21 2013 |
Google Search
Google releases Hummingbird, a core algorithm update aimed at improving semantic search and Knowledge Graph effectiveness.
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| April 2013 |
Google Trends
Tobias Preis, Helen Susannah Moat, and H. Eugene Stanley introduced a method to identify potential stock market moves using Google Trends search volume data.
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| March 2013 |
Google Panda
Google announced that future Panda updates would be integrated into the algorithm, making them continuous and less noticeable.
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| 2012 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Google launches the Knowledge Graph, rapidly expanding its data size and covering 570 million entities and 18 billion facts within seven months of launch.
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| September 28 2012 |
Google Panda
Google filed the Panda patent (patent 8,682,892), which introduces a new method for calculating site rankings based on the ratio between inbound links and search queries related to a site's brand.
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| June 2012 |
Google Trends
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz published articles in The New York Times analyzing racial and social behaviors using Google Trends data, including examining search patterns related to racism, sexuality, and parental perceptions.
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