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SHIKSHITA 
CHAUDHARY
PENGUIN
In 2012, Google officially launched the “webspam algorithm update,” which 
specifically targeted link spam and manipulative link-building practices.
The webspam algorithm later became known (officially) as the Penguin 
algorithm update via a tweet from Matt Cutts, who was then head of the 
Google webspam team.
While Google officially named the algorithm Penguin, there is no official 
word on where this name came from.
GOOGLE FLORIDA
In the early 2000s, when Google announced an update, it usually meant a 
significant change in the search results.
Google’s Florida Update in 2003 was significant. In fact, it was the first 
major Google algorithm update in what would become a decade filled with 
huge updates.
This article discusses what the Florida Update probably was and why it still 
matters today.
GOOGLE EDM (EXACT MATCH DOMAIN)
The EMD, or Exact Match Domain update, was a 2012 
Google algorithm update that targeted exactly what it is named: exact 
match domain names.
The intent behind this update was not to target exact match domain names 
exclusively, but to target sites with the following combination of spammy 
tactics: exact match domains that were also poor quality sites with thin 
content.
GOOGLE PIGEON 
One of Google’s biggest-impact algorithm updates was implemented for the 
sake of local search results, and local businesses typically saw the effects of 
the update in their website’s analytics data.
Google users certainly saw the impact, too, and that typically meant a 
different, and eventually better, search experience in terms of local 
businesses and the information pertaining to those businesses.
GOOGLE PAYDAY
In 2013, the major algorithm update that had everyone talking was the 
Payday Loan Update. This update was significant and impacted 
approximately 0.3 percent of queries in the U.S.
At the time, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, was attributed to 
saying that the impact was as high as 4 percent for Turkish queries. The 
reasoning behind this is because those types of queries have more spam 
associated with them.
GOOGLE FRED
March 8, 2017, was a day that started out like any other…
You were sat at your desk, casually sipping your first cup of coffee and 
catching up with the search news here on Search Engine Journal, or perhaps 
scrolling through your Facebook feed, when it hit you
GOOGLE’S QUALITY UPDATE
May 3, 2015, it happened again.
Google quietly launched an update – now popularly known as the “Quality Update,” 
though in truth it has no official name.
It struck fear into the hearts of many webmasters, digital marketers, and SEO 
professionals.
You can go to bed one night, cozy in the knowledge that you have supreme visibility in 
the search results…
…Only to wake up the next morning and discover your rankings have been obliterated.
GOOGLE RANKBRAIN
It is not an exaggeration to state that Google RankBrain was a revolution in 
how search results are determined.
In 1996 the idea of links as a ranking signal, revolutionized search with what 
would become Google PageRank.