Google Confirm – Panda 23 is Out, Affecting 1.3 % of English Queries

The rising fumes of Google’s rumors about Panda update has been confirmed by the search engine giant on Twitter. According to Google, they have rolled out the refresh on December 21, 2012, which has influenced about 1.3% of English queries.

This is 23rd version of the Panda update that first made the headlines on February 24, 2011.

Here are all the releases so far for Panda:

• Panda Update 1, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 2, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 3, May 10, 2011 (no change given were affected)
• Panda Update 4, June 16, 2011 (no change given were affected)
• Panda Update 5, July 23, 2011 (no change given were affected)
• Panda Update 6, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 7, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given)
• Panda Update 8, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 9, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 10, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given)
• Panda Update 11, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given)
• Panda Update 12, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 13, April 19, 2012 (no change given)
• Panda Update 14, April 27, 2012: (no change given)
• Panda Update 15, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 16, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 17, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 18, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 19, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries were affected)
• Panda Update 20 , Sep. 27, 2012 (2.4% English queries were affected)
• Panda Update 21, Nov. 5, 2012 (1.1% of English-language queries in US; 0.4% worldwide were affected)
• Panda Update 22, Nov. 21, 2012 (0.8% of English queries were affected)
• Panda Update 23, Dec. 21, 2012 (1.3% of English queries were affected)