Google Updates That You've Got To Know About!

Google implemented a real-time search that incorporated data from Twitter feeds, Google News, and other freshly indexed pages as they were posted. The results page automatically shows users content from these sites like Twitter which you can pause once you feel that you have enough data for your query.

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In September 2009, Google implemented the Vince update which appeared to prioritize big brands. Cutts deemed it a minor change, but webmasters believed that it had long-term implications. The search engine clarified that the enhancement was more about generic queries and factoring trust. Meanwhile, earlier in February, the company partnered with Microsoft and Yahoo once more to support a new link element that helped bots pinpoint canonical versions of pages without disturbing the experience of human visitors.

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Dewey was the result of a large-scale shuffle that occurred late March 2008 and early April. The consequences for the update were unclear, but there were reports that the search engine showed different results depending on the server that sent them. Some also believed that the company was pushing its properties like Google Books, although this has never been proven.

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In June, the Buffy update was launched, but it wasn’t a major one; just an accumulation of smaller changes in the algorithm. However, it still caused anxiety to webmasters whose websites were ranking well for a particular keyword and, the next thing they knew, their sites went down in the results pages.

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