It seems Google may have tested a search algorithm update yesterday late morning and then may have pulled it back.

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has chatter from the SEO community around the update but the chatter soon died down after things settled back. Plus most of the automated Google SERP tracking tools show very little fluctuations, if any.

Here are some of the posts late yesterday morning at WebmasterWorld:

Clearly, timing based on these posts in the forum is hard to nail down. The webmasters can be looking at different metrics that are delayed or not real-time.

Both SERPs.com, SERP Metrics and Advanced Web Ranking tools to show a slight uptick in changes in the Google search results.

Maybe something big is coming and this is just an early sign? We are due a Panda update. 🙂

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.