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Category: Algorithm Updates

Core updates, spam updates and confirmed volatility, checked against Google’s Search Status Dashboard.

Horizontal bar chart of the rollout duration of the four 2026 spam updates, with the two core updates drawn as a muted reference. Algorithm Updates Google closed the September 2026 spam update after 13.7 days Google’s Search Status Dashboard closed the entry on 8 October at 08:00 UTC. Thirteen days, fifteen hours and forty-five minutes: the longest… 12 min read Three-step diagram about the rollout window of the September 2026 spam update. One, the window: the dashboard records a 16:15 UTC start on 24 September and no end timestamp, so from outside nobody can tell whether the rollout has finished moving results. Two, the spike: fourteen trackers showed a spike on 23 and 24 September, hours before the entry, so any later reading blends that volatility with the update itself. Three, day one: all three earlier 2026 spam updates were still changing results at 48 hours, so acting on day-one movement treats a partial rollout as a result. Algorithm Updates Google releases the September 2026 spam update with a two-week rollout window Google confirmed the September 2026 spam update at 16:15 UTC on 24 September 2026. It is the first of the four spam… 13 min read