Spam update
October 2022 spam update
Rolled out 19 Oct – 21 Oct 2022, 2 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, 06:47 PDT
The rollout was complete as of October 21, 2022
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:46 PDT
Released the October 2022 spam update (developers.google.com). This update is global and affects all languages.
Next to other spam updates
Google’s 2nd spam update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 2 days, shorter than the one spam update before it, which took 8 days, 1 hour.
- Before it: November 2021 spam update, 3 Nov 2021
- After it: October 2023 spam update, 4 Oct 2023
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