A question was submitted to the Google+ hangout this morning about a site being penalized by Penguin 3.0 back in 2014 and asking for Google to manually update it so the site can break free of the penalty.

The question was asked at the 25:14 mark:

The response was, no:

I wonder if people are buying up Penguin sites that failed now, in anticipation for them to recover soon when the Penguin 4.0 algorithm launches? I mean, I wouldn’t do that because it probably won’t rank even close to as well as it did pre-Penguin 3.0 but it may rank much better than it did post Penguin 3.0. Not sure if that would be a wise business move.

In any event, Google has no way to help one webmaster out here or there around a Penguin algorithm.

Here is the video:

Forum discussion at Google+.