Google Algorithm Updates

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1. BERT (Launch date: December 9, 2019) - Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
2. "Medic" Core Update (Launch date: August 1, 2018) - Impact on Medical Sites
3. YMYL - Your Money Your Life
4. EAT - Expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness
5. Hawk - Eyes on duplicate business listings
6. Fred (Launch date: March 8, 2017) - Random name ( sarcastic)
7. Possum (Launch date: September 1, 2016) - Play possum i.e., pretend not to understand what's going on (regarding Google My business listing)
8. RankBrain (Launch date: October 26, 2015) - A machine-learning artificial intelligence
9. Mobile-Friendly (Launch date: April 21, 2015) - For Mobile pages to get preference.
10. Hummingbird (Launch date: August 22, 2013) - For Page Speed
11. Panda (Launch date: February 24, 2011) - Bad links
12. Penguin (Launch date: April 24, 2012) - Initial name "webspam" (no reason for the name change)
13. Pigeon [Launch date: July 24, 2014 (US); December 22, 2014 (UK, Canada, Australia)] - Pigeon's name decided on because this is a local search update and pigeons tend to fly back home.
14. Payday (Launch date: June 12, 2014) - Regarding payday loan, pornographic and other heavily spammed queries.
15. "Pirate" DMCA Penalty (Launch date: August 10, 2012) - Copyright reports
16. EMD (Launch date: September 27, 2012) - Exact Match Domain

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