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Google ranking updates, confirmed and dated.

Google announces every ranking update it confirms on the Search Status Dashboard, with a start date, an end date, and a note on what changed. This page reads that feed and keeps the list current, so you can tell a real rollout from a bad week.

Nothing rolling out

No confirmed ranking update is open right now.

The last one, September 2026 spam update, finished on October 8, 2026 after 14 days.

The record

Every update Google has confirmed.

Confirmed ranking updates, newest first. Source: Google Search Status Dashboard.
UpdateStartedFinishedRan for
September 2026 spam updateSpamSeptember 24, 2026October 8, 202614 days
August 2026 spam updateSpamAugust 18, 2026August 21, 20263 days
June 2026 spam updateSpamJune 24, 2026June 26, 20262 days
May 2026 core updateCoreMay 21, 2026June 2, 202612 days
March 2026 core updateCoreMarch 27, 2026April 8, 202612 days
March 2026 spam updateSpamMarch 24, 2026March 25, 20261 day
February 2026 Discover updateDiscoverFebruary 5, 2026February 27, 202622 days
December 2025 core updateCoreDecember 11, 2025December 29, 202518 days

Source: Google Search Status Dashboard. Checked October 10, 2026. We publish the dates Google publishes and add nothing to them.

What to do about it

How to read a rollout without overreacting.

  1. Check the dates first.

    Line your traffic drop up against the window above. If your decline started three weeks before the rollout opened, the update did not cause it and the fix is somewhere else.

  2. Wait for it to close.

    Rankings keep moving for as long as an update runs, and the table shows those runs lasting anywhere from a day to several weeks. Changes you make on day three get judged against a SERP that has not settled.

  3. Compare by query, not by total.

    A flat sitewide number hides the story. Pull the query view in Search Console for the rollout window and the four weeks before it, and look at which intents moved. Losing informational queries and holding commercial ones is a different problem from the reverse.

  4. Write down what you shipped.

    Keep a dated log of your own changes next to this list. Most arguments about whether an update hurt you end the moment someone can point at what went live that week.

More on this: most ranking updates go unannounced, and how to read Search Console when rankings move.

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