On June 16th, 2021, Google began to roll out a broad core algorithm update called "The Page Experience Update."¹ This update is intended to bring a better experience to users by prioritizing pages that offer a quality page performance — ie fast load times, and a non-shifting, stable page.

Google has been making strides with AI in its algorithms, the most recent being the May 2021 MUM update. Multitask Unified Model (MUM) is a natural language model that is significantly more powerful than BERT of October 2019 (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers).

The latest Google algorithm update in 2022 is the spam update launched in October. It features an update to SpamBrain, the engine used to identify spam.

Google confirms a broad core algorithm update, called the May 2022 core update, is rolling out today. Today, we're releasing a broad core update, as we do several times per year. This update is called the May 2022 core update.