Spam update
March 2024 spam update
Rolled out 5 Mar – 20 Mar 2024, 14 days, 21 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 20 Mar 2024, 06:09 PDT
The rollout was complete as of March 20, 2024.
· 5 Mar 2024, 09:03 PST
Released (developers.google.com) the March 2024 spam update (developers.google.com). The rollout may take up 2 weeks to complete.
Next to other spam updates
Google’s 4th spam update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 14 days, 21 hours. Of the 3 spam updates before it, 1 took longer and 2 were shorter; they averaged 8 days, 12 hours.
- Before it: October 2023 spam update, 4 Oct 2023
- After it: June 2024 spam update, 20 Jun 2024
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