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    Google Panda Hits Japanese & Korean Languages

    Google announced they have now migrated the Panda algorithm to Japanese and Korean languages. Google also added that this is likely to affect about 5% of queries for those languages. No other Asian or other languages were affected by this update. This comes over 16 months after Google released the original Panda update for English […]

    Panda Google Korea JapanGoogle announced they have now migrated the Panda algorithm to Japanese and Korean languages.

    Google also added that this is likely to affect about 5% of queries for those languages. No other Asian or other languages were affected by this update.

    This comes over 16 months after Google released the original Panda update for English language search results, which impacted 11.8% of those search queries.

    Here is the tweet from Google:

    Since the original Panda update, we’ve had several Panda updates. The most recent was on June 25th, labeled version 3.8.

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