Algorithm update tracker

Every confirmed Google update, with the receipts.

We track algorithm updates the same way we track our own bugs: date, evidence, one-line takeaway, and a link to the source. No speculation, no “sources are saying”.

Treat volatility as a hint, not a conclusion. The volatility score below is a 7-day rolling average of rank-1–10 movement across our monitored corpus. It rises when something is happening, but it doesn’t prove what is happening. Always cross-reference with the update’s public source before drawing a conclusion.

Core update Spam / policy update Major (high volatility) Minor / unconfirmed

Core update · Major

No entries yet — tracker placeholder, launch-day state.

This page ships with an empty feed on launch day. The tracker back-end runs on a scheduled job that pulls confirmed updates from Google’s public search-status dashboard plus a small whitelist of trusted third-party sources. First real entry lands when the scheduler fires post-launch.

› Google Search Status Dashboard (source)

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