Top Search Stories Of 2013: Penguin, Panda, Other Google Updates & Search Logos

Dec 31, 2013 - 8:33 am 1 — by

google elve christmasI normally hate posting the top stories recap of the year, since I spend a heck of a lot of timing hand-selecting what I think the most important stories for the year were when I do my anniversary post but here it is, like I did last year.

Similar to last year you can see much of the top stories are specific to Google Updates such as Google Penguin, Google Panda and others. And to no ones surprise, there were a lot of popular Google logo stories. This is ordered by most visited pages by Google Analytics data.

Top Search Stories Of 2013:

Top Google Logos Stories Of 2013:

But if you want a better representation of what was most important in 2013, look at my 10 year anniversary post.

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