I was incredibly tempted to do a special alert news story Saturday night on a Google algorithm update that seems to have touched down Saturday morning or late Friday but I decided to see how the Sunday chatter around it would be. In short, I noticed an unusual number of people complaining about the Google search results in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread and some on Black Hat World starting early Saturday.

But Sunday and this morning, the chatter significantly died down. Some say whatever happened Saturday morning, it reverted back the next day. We have seen this before, it may have been a bug or something else but the chatter has 100% died down a lot.

Here is some of that Saturday chatter:

Yes, most of the tools also went nuts on or around Sunday. Here are screen shots:

Mozcast:

SERP Metrics:

Accuranker:

RankRanger:

SEMRush:

Algoroo:

And now that Google says these tools are often right – and we have webmaster chatter – maybe something went wrong on Saturday with Google’s search algorithms?

Are you noticing anything this morning or things are back to normal?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.