So yesterday, after coming back from long weekend, I read Barry Schwartz post and he confirms that an update was indeed occurring. Briefly after getting the email, they replied that they just confirmed it via Twitter.
Google said they update a minor panda refresh this past Monday on August 20th. This refresh only impacted less tan 1% of search results according to Google.
Barry did receive emails from a few people who asked him to verify that this was a panda rolled out. Because they saw varies on their Panda penalized (pandalized) sites and wanted to know if they eventually broke out of that penalty. Barry show the screen shot from one site that recovered with this update:
Here are the past Panda refreshes and updates:
Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
Panda 3.9 on July 24th
Panda 3.8 on June 25th
Panda 3.7 on June 9th
Panda 3.6 on April 27th
Panda 3.5 on April 19th
Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
Panda 3.1 on November 18th
Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
Panda 2.5 on September 28th
Panda 2.4 in August
Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
Panda 1.0 on February 24th
