Spam update
October 2023 spam update
Rolled out 4 Oct – 20 Oct 2023, 15 days, 12 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 19 Oct 2023, 22:15 PDT
The rollout was complete as of October 20, 2023.
· 4 Oct 2023, 09:52 PDT
Released (developers.google.com) the October 2023 spam update (developers.google.com), which applies globally and improves our coverage in many languages, including Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages.
Next to other spam updates
Google’s 3rd spam update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 15 days, 12 hours, longer than every spam update before it (they averaged 5 days).
- Before it: October 2022 spam update, 19 Oct 2022
- After it: March 2024 spam update, 5 Mar 2024
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