Over the weekend, I’ve been getting lots of questions from webmasters if I noticed a Google update starting late Friday into Saturday and Sunday. Truth is, yea, there is higher than normal webmaster chatter around changes in the desktop search results, unrelated to mobile results.
The chatter is supported by the various tracking tools including MozCast, Algoroo, SERP Metrics, SERPs and others as well
Here are some of the comments from the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread:
It might have shifted back now, but here are screen shots of the tracking tools:
Pete Meyers from Moz said it was unrelated to mobile, as he posted on Twitter:
Did your desktop rankings change over the weekend?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.