Almost 17 months after Google launched Panda for English language search results, Google announced on Twitter, they are releasing it for Japanese & Korean languages.

Last night, Google pushed it out and Google said it will affect about 5% of those search queries. That is much less than the 11.8% of US based search queries affected by the initial Panda release in February 2011.

Here is the tweet from Google last night:

What is interesting is that I believe Penguin was maybe a global release but Panda was not. That is even more evidence that Penguin is more link related and Panda is more content related, unless I am forgetting something?

The US has had several Panda updates. Here is a list of them:

Panda 3.8 on June 25th
Panda 3.7 on June 9th
Panda 3.6 on April 27th
Panda 3.5 on April 19th
Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
Panda 3.2 on about January 15thPanda 3.1 on November 18th
Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
Panda 2.5 on September 28th
Panda 2.4 in August
Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
Panda 1.0 on February 24th

Forum discussion at Twitter & WebmasterWorld.