Every ranking update Google confirmed during the year, the stories the most outlets ran, and the news most likely to have mattered to a working site — built from our own archive of 551 stories.
7 named updates, rolling out for 62 days in total.
| Update | Type | Started | Rollout |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 core update | Core update | 5 Mar 2024 | 46 days |
| March 2024 spam update | Spam update | 5 Mar 2024 | 16 days |
| June 2024 spam update | Spam update | 20 Jun 2024 | not recorded |
| August 2024 core update | Core update | 15 Aug 2024 | not recorded |
| November 2024 core update | Core update | 11 Nov 2024 | not recorded |
| December 2024 core update | Core update | 12 Dec 2024 | not recorded |
| December 2024 spam update | Spam update | 19 Dec 2024 | not recorded |
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
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Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
