The register · Google Search

Google updates. A documented history.

From the start to the end of a rollout. Official dates, durations and evidence to put your observations in context.

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Latest documented rollout

November 2026 core update
Since November 2021

Recent rollouts linked to collection. Last checked: 2026-11-12 · 01:16 UTC.

Precise times in UTC. Date-only boundaries and calendar differences use Pacific time. Understand the dates

2026.

8 rollouts

2025.

4 rollouts

2024.

7 rollouts

2023.

9 rollouts

2022.

10 rollouts

2021.

2 rollouts

From date to diagnosis

A coincidence. Not yet a cause.

01

Locate

Annotate the official period in your reporting. Separate the rollout, Google incidents and your own releases.

02

Compare

For a core update, Google advises waiting at least one week after completion, then comparing with a period before the rollout.

03

Verify

Inspect pages, queries and search types. Also check technical causes, seasonality and changes to the site.

Google core update guidance · Diagnose a traffic drop

TSEP helps document the technical observations below. These checks do not measure algorithmic impact or guarantee rankings.

The scope

Incidents. Not rollouts.

These two Ranking entries are service incidents. They remain available here but are excluded from the rollout count.

Bug in how the October 2023 core update was applied to Discover, fixed by October 31 according to Google. This fix is not an additional rollout.

2023-10-05 · time unspecified — 2023-10-31 · time unspecified

Source and dates
Ranking is experiencing an ongoing issue
Source start
2023-10-05 00:00
Source end
2023-10-31 00:00

Dashboard values · US/Pacific. Midnight boundaries are retained as date only. Calculation method

Gzip capture · 3deb5a768a1f…Captured on

Method and review

Precise dates. When the source allows.

This register covers rollouts announced in the Ranking section of the Google Search Status Dashboard, from November 2021 onward. It does not cover every algorithm change or unconfirmed fluctuation. Previously captured rollouts are retained if they leave Google’s index.

Boundaries come from each official incident record, not from the publication time of its completion message. Precise times are converted from Pacific time to UTC with daylight saving handled. A midnight boundary is conservatively retained as a date only; its original value remains in the JSON.

An exact duration is calculated only when both times are known. Otherwise we show the difference between Pacific calendar dates: it is neither an exact duration nor an inclusive count of affected days. French titles and update families are TSEP editorial classifications; the original Google title is retained.

Captures contain the received bytes compressed with gzip; SHA-256 applies to the decompressed document. Capture dates are later than announcements: they do not prove that the document existed on the rollout date.

Source verification and register edition are separate dates. Reading guidance is AI-assisted; no human signature is created without an attestation for this exact version. Coincident dates establish neither the cause of a traffic drop nor website conformity.

Human review of this edition: pending.

Archived index and guides

Independent timestamp

DigiCert · RFC 3161

The historical token covers only captures listed in its manifest. Updates from collection have their own captures and dates.

44 captures bound to the manifest signed on .

Download the verification bundle

The timestamp proves that the captures existed no later than the signed time. It does not certify publication dates, content or human review. The ZIP contains the manifest, signed token and OpenSSL verification command.

Edition history

2026-11-06.1 · New reading by year and update family, search, FR/EN titles, separate incidents, CSV and Markdown exports. All 39 periods were rechecked without changes. Capture times, source values, method and timestamp verification bundle added.

2026-11-05 · Previous edition: 39 rollouts and their Google captures. Precise times distinguished from date-only boundaries.

Open data

Cite. Reuse.

Edikka — TSEP. « Google ranking update history ». Edition 2026-11-06.1. https://tsep-protocol.org/en/updates/google-ranking-updates. CC BY 4.0.

JSONCSVMarkdown

Exports retain Google identifiers, date precision, complete hashes and evidence links. CSV covers rollouts; JSON and Markdown also include the separate incidents.

CC BY 4.0 · TSEP factual compilation and editorial classifications. Source documents retain their original terms.

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