Google announced the new search algorithm update to combat webspam.This update will decrease rankings for sites that promote webspam. The new update affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree.
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