Google Confirms Its Search Spam Team Is Fighting Spam

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Aug 31, 2026 – 7:21 am66
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Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-reto update its spam algorithms, such as the latest Google August 2026 spam update, to help reduce spam in Google Search results

Gagan Ghotra posted on X saying:

August 2026 Spam Update just showed one thing …. spam team is still alive and writing new algorithms to tackle things!

Pre this update, I was like may be search team is not well staffed anymore (Google more focus on Gemini teams) and that’s why they are letting rank some of these spam things like scaled listicles and not like algorithmic hammering those domains at scale but after this update, it seems like spam team is still well re

Rajan Patel from Google responded on X in short:

Yes it is.

Here are those posts:

The latest data from SE Rankings showed that this past spam update hit harder than most spam updates. Mordy Oberstein from SE Ranking wrote on X, “This, to me, sums up the recent Google spam update the best…. the 82% increase in Google kicking URLs out of the top 100. (Because this is a spam, not a core update).”

Glenn Gabe <a href="https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/august-2026-google-spam-update-case-studies/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>documented many hits on his blog and also on X:

So there you go, Google agrees its spam team is working hard

Forum discussion at X

 
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