We’ve been covering all the confusion around Penguin and Panda about it being real time or manual. I explained based on covering John Mueller’s explanation of what is real time and what is not over here.

But Google’s Mariya Moeva explained it very concisely in a Google+ post, this is not new, because I covered it before, but the way Mariya explained it is short and concise:

I don’t speak Russian, but the reason this was prompted is because at the 46:42 minute part of the video, someone asked about this:

So I asked Mariya to explain and she responded:

Again, this has led to a lot of confusion, I covered all of that over here but it is important enough to cover again.

Without the updated data, even though these algorithms are built into the real time infrastructure, you won’t see any changes to your rankings around those specific algorithms.

Forum discussion at Google+.