Google Unleashes Penguin 2.1

Oct 4, 2013 - 6:07 pm 284 by
Filed Under Google Updates

Google Penguin UpdatePenguin 2.1 has officially been released today.

Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam announced it on Twitter:

I saw signs of this around 9am EDT this morning but didn't see enough chatter to cover it yet. I suspect over the weekend the forums will light up. Some of the early stats I saw on sites that got hit were huge.

Of course it was a late Friday release:

I'll have more details on this on Monday, with the impact on real webmasters.

For more details on Penguin click here.

 

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