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Google Reiterates: Search Updates Announced Upon Rollout, Not Before

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Google's John Mueller confirmed that the company announces search updates at the same time rollout begins, not beforehand.

SERoundtable reports that Google's John Mueller has reiterated the company's longstanding practice of announcing core and spam updates concurrent with their rollout rather than delaying the announcement. Google does not wait days before publicizing that an update has begun.
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