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Google Panda Update History

The last Panda update was on September 25, 2014, which affected between three to five percent of search queries. Websites which were heavily effected by update 4.1 were mostly news sharing sites, download portals, online games, lyric databases and medical websites. Let’s take a view through history to learn about the  past Google Panda updates  and refreshes: Panda 1.0  – was launched on Feb 24, 2011. It impacted 12 percent of total search queries and it mainly targeted duplicated, shallow content. It reduced the visibility of content farms like Ezinearticles and other low quality web content. Panda 2.0  – Was rolled out after two months from Panda 1.0 on April 11, 2011 to all English queries. It added on a new signal to identify users’ site blocking data. Panda 2.1 .. 2.5  – These updates had minor changes and did not impact many queries, but they affected sites having scrap content. They were running in almost all languages. Panda 3.1  – This was a data refresh, which affected