Helpful content update
December 2022 helpful content update
Rolled out 5 Dec 2022 – 12 Jan 2023, 38 days. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
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Google added these notes to its dashboard on 22 Mar 2023, after the update. The dates in the notes are the update’s own.
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:49 PDT
The rollout was complete as of January 12, 2023
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:48 PDT
Released the December 2022 helpful content update (developers.google.com), which improves our classifier and works across content globally in all languages.
Next to other helpful content updates
Google’s 2nd helpful content update on its status dashboard, which lists them from August 2022.
It took 38 days, longer than the one helpful content update before it, which took 15 days.
- Before it: August 2022 helpful content update, 25 Aug 2022
- After it: September 2023 helpful content update, 14 Sep 2023
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