Google has announced that the latest version of its Panda Update — a filter designed to
penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released.
Google said in a post on Google+
that a “slow rollout” began earlier this week and will continue into next week,
before being complete. Google said that depending on location, about 3%-to-5%
of search queries will be affected.
Anything different about
this latest release? Google says it’s supposed to be more precise and will allow more
high-quality small and medium-sized sites to rank better. From the post:
Based
on user (and web-master!) feedback, we've been able to discover a few more
signals to help Panda identify low-quality content more precisely. This results
in a greater diversity of high-quality small- and medium-sized sites ranking
higher, which is nice.