Google & Facebook in the News

Misc. collection of recent news regarding both Facebook and Google:

• German official: Facebook must delete faces
• Google cutting 4000 jobs at Motorola unit
• FTC finalizes privacy settlement with Facebook
• Google to pay record fine for tracking Safari users
• Google to include people's Gmail in search results.

Google Pushes Out Panda Update

Google rolled out the latest update to its Panda algorithm yesterday.

The company posted the news  on Twitter, saying this update will affect about one percent of search results.

New data refresh of Panda starts rolling out tonight. ~1% of search results change enough to notice. More context: goo.gl/huekf — A Googler (@google) July 24, 2012

The previous update (3.8) occurred a month ago — on June 25th.

Panda rolled out initially in February 2011 and was designed to remove low-quality/thin content from Google’s search results.