SEOmoz put together a nice living document on Google's history of updates, algorithm changes and major user interface changes.
Personally, I find it very useful to see what Google has done in the past because it might help people understand where they are going in the future. In fact, I put together a huge presentation on the history of Google's updates, mostly pulled from WebmasterWorld and my Google Updates category for that presentation.
In any event, here is the SEOmoz list followed by my more concise list:
SEOmoz Google Update List:
- Google Toolbar - December 2000
- Boston - February 2003
- Cassandra - April 2003
- Dominic - May 2003
- Esmerelda - June 2003
- Fritz - July 2003
- Florida - November 2003
- Austin - January 2004
- Brandy - February 2004
- Google IPO - August 2004
- Nofollow - January 2005
- Allegra - February 2005
- Bourbon - May 2005
- XML Sitemaps - June 2005
- Personalized Search - June 2005
- Gilligan - September 2005
- Google Local/Maps - October 2005
- Jagger - October 2005
- Big Daddy - December 2005
- Supplemental Index - November 2006
- Universal Search - May 2007
- Buffy - June 2007
- Dewey - April 2008
- Google Suggest - August 2008
- Vince - February 2009
- Rel-canonical Tag - February 2009
- Caffeine - August 2009
- Real-time Search - December 2009
- Google Places - April 2010
- May Day - May 2010
- Brand Update - August 2010
- Google Instant - September 2010
- Instant Previews - November 2010
- Social Signals - December 2010
- Overstock.com Penalty - January 2011
- Panda/Farmer - February 23, 2011
- The +1 Button - March 30, 2011
- Panda 2.0 - April 11, 2011
- Panda 2.1 - May 9, 2011
- Schema.org - June 2, 2011
- Panda 2.2 - June 21, 2011
- Google+ - June 28, 2011
- Panda 2.3 - July 23, 2011
My Google Update List:
- Fritz (Summer 2003)
- Florida (November 2003)
- Austin Update (Jan 2004)
- The Sandbox (April 2004)
- Bourbon (May 2005)
- Big Daddy (October 2005)
- Supplemental (Jan 2007)
- Paid Links (October 2007)
- Dewey Update (Mar 2008)
- Vince / Brand (March 2009)
- May Day (May 2010)
- Caffeine (June 2010)
- Scraper Filter (Jan. 2011)
- Panda (February 2011)
What do you think? Useful or not?
Forum discussion at Sphinn.
