Google: Penguin Is On Autopilot & Only Tweaked Occasionally

Oct 11, 2017 - 8:15 am 2 by

Google Penguin Pilot

We kind of knew this that when Penguin went real time that it meant Google is done with numbered Penguin releases. Google' Gary Illyes confirmed the other day at State of Search that the Penguin algorithm is still on autopilot and runs in real time by itself.

Gary added that they have made "occasional tweaks" to the algorithm but overall the engineering team is happy with the late 2016 release of the Penguin update after the few tweaks they made.

Here are some tweets with this coverage from the conference:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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