Google’s Matt Cutts declared on Twitter that they have released version 4.0 of the Google Panda algorithm.

Google’s Panda algorithm is meant to stop sites with poor quality content from operating their manner into Google’s prime search results.

But didn’t Google stop updating us on Panda refreshes and updates since they're monthly rolling updates? yes, however this is often a much bigger update.

Panda 4.0 should be a significant update to the particular rule versus simply an information refresh. Meaning, Google has created changes to however Panda identifies sites and has free a replacement version of the rule these days.

Is this the softer and gentler Panda algorithm? From reprimand Google, it appears like this update are going to be gentler for a few sites, and lay the groundwork for future changes therein direction.

Google told us that Panda 4.0 affects totally different languages to different degrees. In English as an example, the impact is ~7.5% of queries that are affected to a degree that a daily user may notice.

Here are the previous confirmed Panda updates, note, that we named them by every refresh and update, but 4.0 is however Google named this specific update: