Google New Panda Update 21, Impacts 1.1% Of US Queries In English

Google New Panda Update 21, Impacts 1.1% Of US Queries In English

Did you feel it yesterday? Some did, a slight shaking in the Google results. Yes, it was real. Google’s confirmed to us that a Panda Update happened yesterday.

Google said that worldwide, the update will impact about 0.4% of queries that a regular user might notice. For those searching in the United States in English, the percentage is higher. 1.1%, Google says.

This marks the 21st confirmed Panda Update by Google and stays in keeping with the roughly 4-6 week release schedule. Here are all the releases so far:

 Panda Update 1, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries; announced; English in US only)
 Panda Update 2, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries; announced; rolled out in English internationally)
 Panda Update 3, May 10, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
 Panda Update 4, June 16, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
 Panda Update 5, July 23, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
 Panda Update 6, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries in many non-English languages; announced)
 Panda Update 7, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
 Panda Update 8, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries; belatedly confirmed)
 Panda Update 9, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries; announced)
 Panda Update 10, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
 Panda Update 11, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given; announced)
 Panda Update 12, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries impacted; announced)
 Panda Update 13, April 19, 2012 (no change given; belatedly revealed)
 Panda Update 14, April 27, 2012: (no change given; confirmed; first update within days of another)
 Panda Update 15, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries; belatedly announced)
 Panda Update 16, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries; announced)
 Panda Update 17, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries; announced)
 Panda Update 18, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries; belatedly announced)
 Panda Update 19, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries; announced)
 Panda Update 20 , Sep. 27, 2012 (2.4% English queries, impacted, belatedly announced
 Panda Update 21, Nov. 5, 2012 (1.1% of English-language queries in US; 0.4% worldwide; confirmed, not announced)

The notations tell what percentage of Google’s queries were estimated impacted by the Panda release, when this is given.