Here are the list of All Google Algorithm updates from 2015 to August 2024 (Google latest algorithm update)
| Date | Update Name | Description | Url |
| 20 June 2024 | June 2024 Spam Update | Spam updates are directed against websites that violate the webmaster guidelines. The websites affected by these upgrades can be focusing on quick profits at the expense of best practices. It could take a week or longer to release this update. | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/spam-updates |
| 6 March 2024 | March 2024 Core Update | This Core Update is larger than normal. It focuses on the helpfulness of content and aims to show less content that feels like it was made to attract clicks, and more content that people find useful. This update was completed on April 19th. | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies |
| 6 March 2024 | March 2024 Spam Update | Google has announced 3 new spam policies targeting expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse, and a new Spam Update. This update completed on March 20th. | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/spam-updates |
| 8 November 2023 | November 2023 Reviews Update | The reviews update now covers products, services, destinations, games, movies or other topics. This is the final Reviews update as this system is going to be real time. This update completed on December 7th. | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/ecommerce/write-high-quality-reviews |
| 2 November 2023 | November 2023 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-E-A-T or Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update completed on November | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates |
| 5 October 2023 | October 2023 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-E-A-T or Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update completed on October 19th | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates |
| 4 October 2023 | October 2023 Spam Update | This update to Google’s spam detection systems will improve their coverage in many languages and spam types. It aims to clean up several types of spam that were reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages. It targets cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam. This update completed on October 20th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/10/october-2023-spam-update |
| 14 September 2023 | September 2023 Helpful Content Update | Helpful content updates promote more original, helpful content written by people, for people, rather than content made primarily for search engine traffic. Google mentioned that this update improved the classifier. This update completed on September 28th | https://developers.google.com/search/help/helpful-content-faq |
| 22 August 2023 | August 2023 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-E-A-T or Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update completed on September 7th | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates |
| 12 April 2023 | April 2023 Reviews Update | The reviews update now covers products, services, destinations, games, movies or other topics. This update was completed on April 25th | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/ecommerce/write-high-quality-reviews |
| 15 March 2023 | March 2023 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-E-A-T or Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on March 28th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 21 February 2023 | February 2023 Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update applies to content in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish. This update was completed on March 7th | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/reviews-system |
| 14 December 2022 | December 2022 Link Spam Update | Google is using their AI-based spam-prevention system SpamBrain against links for the first time. It can detect sites buying links and sites used for the purpose of passing outgoing links and will remove any value those links provided. This update is global and affects all languages. This update was completed on January 12th, 2023 | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/12/december-22-link-spam-update |
| 5 December 2022 | December 2022 Helpful Content Update | This update improves Google’s classifier which now works across all languages. Helpful content updates promote more original, helpful content written by people, for people, rather than content made primarily for search engine traffic. This update was completed on January 12th, 2023 | https://developers.google.com/search/help/helpful-content-faq |
| 19 October 2022 | October 2022 Spam Update | Spam updates target sites that don’t follow the webmaster guidelines. Sites impacted by these updates may be seeking short term gains while ignoring best practices. This update was completed on October 21st | https://developers.google.com/search/updates/spam-updates |
| 20 September 2022 | September 2022 Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update targets specifically English-language product reviews. It was completed on September 26th | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/ecommerce/write-high-quality-reviews |
| 12 September 2022 | September 2022 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on September 26th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 25 August 2022 | August 2022 Helpful Content Update | Helpful content updates promote more original, helpful content written by people, for people, rather than content made primarily for search engine traffic. This update will take up to 2 weeks to roll out | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-content-update |
| 27 July 2022 | July 2022 Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update targets specifically English-language product reviews and was completed on August 2nd | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/ecommerce/write-high-quality-reviews |
| 25 May 2022 | May 2022 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on June 9th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/05/may-2022-core-update |
| 23 March 2022 | Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update was completed on April 6th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/03/product-review-ranking-one-year-on?hl=en |
| 22 February 2022 | Desktop Page Experience Update | Page Experience updates are designed to highlight pages that offer great user experiences. This includes mobile friendliness, intrusive interstitials, safe browsing, and speed metrics referred to as Core Web Vitals. This update was completed on March 3rd | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/11/bringing-page-experience-to-desktop?hl=en |
| 1 December 2022 | Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update was completed on December 21st | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/12/product-reviews-update-and-your-site?hl=en |
| 30 November 2021 | November 2021 Local Search Update | Local search updates focus on making local search results better for users. They are typically rebalancing factors such as relevance, distance, and prominence. This update was completed on December 8th | https://support.google.com/business/answer/7091 |
| 17 November 2021 | November 2021 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on November 30th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 3 November 2021 | November 2021 Spam Update | Spam updates target sites that don’t follow the webmaster guidelines. Sites impacted by these updates may be seeking short term gains while ignoring best practices. This update was completed on November 11th | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials |
| 16 August 2021 | Page Title Rewrites | This was a change to how Google writes titles for pages in the SERP. More titles are now rewritten and each page generally has one title now. Previously, titles could change depending on the query | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/08/update-to-generating-page-titles |
| 26 July 2021 | July 2021 Link Spam Update | Spam updates target sites that don’t follow the webmaster guidelines. Sites impacted by these updates may be seeking short term gains while ignoring best practices. As the name implies, this particular update targeted link spam. This update was completed on August 24th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/07/link-tagging-and-link-spam-update |
| 1 July 2021 | July 2021 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on July 12th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 28 June 2021 | Spam Update Part 2 | Spam updates target sites that don’t follow the webmaster guidelines. Sites impacted by these updates may be seeking short term gains while ignoring best practices. This update was completed the same day | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials |
| 23 June 2021 | Spam Update | Spam updates target sites that don’t follow the webmaster guidelines. Sites impacted by these updates may be seeking short term gains while ignoring best practices. This update was completed the same day | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials |
| 15 June 2021 | Mobile Page Experience Update | Page Experience updates are designed to highlight pages that offer great user experiences. This includes mobile friendliness, intrusive interstitials, safe browsing, and speed metrics referred to as Core Web Vitals. This update was completed on September 2nd | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/more-details-page-experience |
| 10 June 2021 | Protecting People From Harassment Update | This update targets sites that may engage in predatory practices when it comes to harassing people | https://blog.google/products/search/improving-search-better-protect-people-harassment/ |
| 2 June 2021 | June 2021 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on June 12th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 8 April 2021 | Product Reviews Update | Product review updates prioritize content that demonstrates first hand knowledge and expertise of the products. This update was completed on April 22nd | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/product-reviews-update |
| 10 February 2021 | Passage Ranking | Passage ranking helps specific passages within pages to rank better for relevant queries. This update was completed on February 15th | https://blog.google/products/search/search-on/ |
| 3 December 2020 | December 2020 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on December 16th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 15 November 2020 | Subtopics Ranking | Subtopic ranking helped Google to better understand relevant subtopics for some search results and show a wider range of relevant content. Date is approximate | https://blog.google/products/search/search-on/ |
| 20 September 2020 | Indexing & Canonicalization Bugs | A couple separate bugs happening at the same time led to some flux in the SERPs. Mobile Indexing bug fixed October 8th. Canonical issue fixed October 14th | https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1311805474992320512 |
| 10 August 2020 | Google Glitch | A major bug shook up Google search results on this day. Many SEOs noticed a lot of low quality sites ranking higher. Fixed the 11th | https://x.com/googlesearchc/status/1293212810474921985 |
| 4 May 2020 | May 2020 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was completed on May 18th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 22 January 2020 | Featured Snippet De-duping | This update made it so your page is only listed once in SERPs. Prior to this, a page could have the featured snippet and another organic listing | https://x.com/dannysullivan/status/1220096026981175296 |
| 13 January 2020 | January 2020 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 9 December 2019 | International BERT Roll-out | BERT uses machine learning to help understand user queries better and to return more relevant results | https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/ |
| 5 November 2019 | Nov. 2019 Local Search Update | Local search updates focus on making local search results better for users. They are typically rebalancing factors such as relevance, distance, and prominence. This particular update also introduced neural matching which helps Google better understand how words are related to concepts. This update was completed on December 2nd | https://support.google.com/business/answer/7091 |
| 22 October 2019 | BERT Update | BERT uses machine learning to help understand user queries better and to return more relevant results | https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/ |
| 24 September 2019 | September 2019 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 4 June 2019 | Site Diversity Update | The Site Diversity Update makes it so that one site will rarely have more than 2 organic listings in a SERP | https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1136739062843432960 |
| 3 June 2019 | June 2019 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 5 April 2019 | Deindexing Bug | A bug on Google’s end made a lot of pages drop out of the index. This was fixed by April 10th | https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1114961119699804160 |
| 12 March 2019 | March 2019 Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 1 August 2018 | Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. Some SEOs also call this the Medic update. This update was completed on August 8th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2018/01/using-page-speed-in-mobile-search |
| 9 July 2018 | Mobile Page Speed Update | This update made it so that some of the slowest websites were not as visible in search results. There was some testing prior to this date | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2018/01/using-page-speed-in-mobile-search |
| 16 April 2018 | Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 26 March 2018 | Mobile-First Indexing | Mobile-First Indexing was a change in how Google indexed pages. They switched from using the desktop version of pages to the mobile version. This means that content and links seen on mobile pages are what are ultimately indexed. While some sites were moved before this date, this is the date when the first big batch of websites were moved | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2018/03/rolling-out-mobile-first-indexing |
| 7 March 2018 | Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 20 June 2017 | Google Jobs | Google officially launched a search feature related to jobs | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2017/06/connect-to-job-seekers-with-google |
| 25 April 2017 | Project Owl | Project Owl was a quality update designed to reduce offensive and misleading pages in search results | https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-improvements-search/ |
| 7 March 2017 | Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking. This update was also referred to as Fred, a nickname given to it by Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 10 January 2017 | Intrusive Interstitial Penalty | The Intrusive Interstitial Penalty targeted sites with popups that made content less accessible | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on |
| 6 October 2016 | Hacked Spam Update | The hacked spam update aimed to demote hacked websites in search results | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2015/10/an-update-on-how-we-tackle-hacked-spam |
| 23 September 2016 | Penguin 4.0 | Google’s Penguin algorithm was made to target webspam. This update integrated Penguin with the Core algorithm. It also changed from demoting pages to a system that tries to simply ignore bad links. This update was completed on October 12th | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/09/penguin-is-now-part-of-our-core |
| 17 May 2026 | Rich Cards introduced | Google launched rich cards. These are special SERP features powered by structured data. You can see the various features in the search gallery | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/05/introducing-rich-cards |
| 12 May 2016 | Mobile-Friendly Update | The second Mobile-Friendly Update increased the effect of the ranking signal. It was intended to make mobile-friendly sites rank even better. | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/03/continuing-to-make-web-more-mobile |
| 8 January 2016 | Core Update | Core updates involve large changes to Google’s algorithm aimed to make the results better. They’re generally focused on E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These updates can cause significant shifts in ranking | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/08/core-updates |
| 17 December 2015 | Indexing HTTPS pages by default | Google started to crawl and index the HTTPS version of pages over the HTTP versions | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2015/12/indexing-https-pages-by-default |
| 26 October 2015 | RankBrain | RankBrain is using machine learning to better understand search queries and return relevant results. Launched months before it was announced | https://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-rankbrain-algorithm-234440 |
| 18 July 2015 | Panda 4.2 | Panda updates aim to adjust rankings based on website quality. Panda 4.2 rolled out over several months | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality |