Panda 4.0 Roll Out confirmed by Matt Cutts

[EvilSaint]

Just saw a message on twitter from Matt Cutts alerting to an update of their Panda Algo Change...named 4.0.

Matt tweets just 8 minutes ago that there is an update to the "Payday Loans Algorithm" which is targetting "very spammy queries" at this stage.

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Wondering if anyone noticed a shuffle in site positioning already?

Algoroo is showing activity spikes over the past 4 days.

[CaptainSalad2]

It is ridiculous Google, WHY, WHY, WHY are you serving ALL US SERPs for a product the US CANNOT supply to the UK under a normal search BUT, BUT, BUT, I append UK and, HELLO, sensible results!?!?!?

Unfortunately it makes perfect business sense for Google to ensure their ad network is laser targeted for commercial queries while their free product has learning difficulties!

Does anyone really believe they would have any interest in programming commercial serps to be as targeted/relevant or better than their ads? Course not, there is no business logic for them to do this for commercial queries, none at all!

Larry Page predicted 14 yrs ago...

"WE EXPECT THAT ADVERTISING FUNDED SEARCH ENGINES WILL BE INHERENTLY BIASED TOWARDS THE ADVERTISERS AND AWAY FROM THE NEEDS OF THE CONSUMERS"

Who knew Larry was psychic, welcome to Google 2014 ;)

[graeme_p]

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"