Spam update
December 2024 spam update
Rolled out 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2024, 7 days, 2 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 26 Dec 2024, 11:03 PST
The rollout was complete as of December 26, 2024.
· 19 Dec 2024, 09:01 PST
Released the December 2024 spam update (developers.google.com), which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may take up to 1 week to complete.
Next to other spam updates
Google’s 6th spam update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 7 days, 2 hours. Of the 5 spam updates before it, 3 took longer and 2 were shorter; they averaged 9 days, 11 hours.
- Before it: June 2024 spam update, 20 Jun 2024
- After it: August 2025 spam update, 26 Aug 2025
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