I cannot tell you how many times people emailed me or pinged me on social when they saw the Google Search Console reports say “update” in them. They thought Google confirmed some sort of algorithmic update and the update line in the reports was proof.

So when I spoke to the Google Search Console team , I told them it might make sense to change it from “Update” to anything else. That anything else is now known as “note.” The “update” line is now known as a “note” line.

Here is the new mention:

Here is what it looked like the other week:

John Mueller confirmed the change yesterday in a Google hangout at the 9:15 mark into the video. He said:

I like this small but important change. 🙂

Here is the video embed:

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