Google confirmed 11 ranking updates between January 2025 and October 2026. Four came in 2025 and seven in 2026. The most recent was the September 2026 spam update, which ran from 24 September to 8 October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we checked on 27 October 2026, Google’s dashboard showed no ranking update in progress. In 2025 there were three core updates and one spam update. In 2026 so far there have been two core updates, four spam updates and one Discover core update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We take every date on this page from the Google Search Status Dashboard<\/a>, which is Google’s own log of ranking updates. Click any update name in the tables and you land on Google’s announcement there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trade press appears only as context, and every such line names its source. We also list the Search changes Google announced for Arabic and the Middle East. If you run an Arabic site for buyers in Riyadh, Cairo or Dubai, you need both lists side by side to make sense of your traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This page tells you what changed and when. If you want to know how the ranking systems behind these updates work, from E-E-A-T to Core Web Vitals, read our guide to how Google search algorithms work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Up to 27 October, Google confirmed seven ranking updates in 2026. Two were core updates, in March and May, and four were spam updates, in March, June, August and September. The seventh was a February Discover core update that covered only English-language users in the US. Each row below gives you a start date, a completion date and a link to the dashboard entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhich Google updates are confirmed for 2026?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n