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.
4 named updates, rolling out for 45 days in total.
| Update | Type | Started | Rollout |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 core update | Core update | 13 Mar 2025 | not recorded |
| June 2025 core update | Core update | 30 Jun 2025 | not recorded |
| August 2025 spam update | Spam update | 26 Aug 2025 | 26 days, 15h |
| December 2025 core update | Core update | 11 Dec 2025 | 18 days, 1h |
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
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Ranking & Algorithms Content & Quality
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Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
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Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
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E-commerce
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Ranking & Algorithms Paid Search
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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.
