January 2015 started out pretty slow with Google webmaster news but we are ending it with a lot of things happening. This includes a possible major Google update that Google said was only a tweak, as well as two other updates that were not disclosed or commented on by Google.

Google told us they may not be announcing future Penguin updates but that they do not release filibuster algorithms to annoy us. Google is bringing Tweets in real-time search, they started sending mobile warnings in mass and updated their structured data tool, testing new search query reports, improved the reconsideration request documentation and added third party apps to Google Now.

There is a lot more, here it is:

Google Algorithm Updates & Shifts:
Significant Google Search Algorithm Update Yesterday
Google: The Google Update Was Not Panda Or Penguin
Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard Coming?
Google: That Update Was Not Penguin Or Panda Related
Google Algorithm Shifts? Some Early Chatter In The Community.

Google Algorithm Discussions:
Google: Penguin Update Should Be Faster & We May Not Announce It
Google Have Algorithm Filibuster To Annoy Webmasters? Nope.
Google: Penguin Algorithm & The Engineers Took A Break

Larger Google Webmaster Concerns
Google Real Time Search Coming Back With Twitter Deal; Spammers Rejoice
Google Sending Mass Scale Warnings To Non-Mobile Friendly Web Sites
Google Revamps Structured Data Testing Tool & Documentation
Test Out The New Search Queries Report In Google Webmaster Tools
Google Reconsideration Requests Documentation Adds Step-By-Step Instructions, Examples & More
Third-Party Apps In Google Now Cards

Google SEO & Webmaster Topics:
Google Webmaster Tools Emails For App Deep Linking Impressions & Clicks
Google Webmaster Tools Noticies For App Deep Linking With Mismatched Content
Google Mobile Snippets Now Also Showing Robots.txt Blocking Message
Google.co.uk Chrome Users Sent To Google.com?
Google Adds Social Profile Links For Brand Knowledge Graph Boxes
Google Answers Now Showing Action Links For Third-Party Web Sites
Google Knowledge Graph Events Gets Ticket Links, Comedian Events & Venue Events
Google Launches A Mortgage Calculator, Take That Publishers!
Google News Will Index Your Images Hosted On Different Domains
Google: Solving Your Google Penguin Problems With More Unnatural Links Won’t Work
Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
80% Of Those Solicited Wanted Negative SEO Services
Some SEOs Switching Back To HTTP After Seeing No Rank Changes In Google
Google: Make Sure To Match Up Your rel=canonical & hreflang pairs
Google: Upper Or Lower Case In Your Disavow Both Work Fine
Google: Top Problems We See With Dynamic Serving Mobile Implementation
Google Now Supports Crawling TLS 1.2

Misc Google Industry Topics:
Google Glass Says Farewell To Explorers; Will Version 2.0 Come?
Video: Matt Cutts Talks About Google’s Early Days
60% Say Matt Cutts Won’t Return To Google

For the previous month’s report, see over here.

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