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MATT CUTTS: Today's question comes from Costa Rica.
SEOCharlie wants to know, is Google Panda affecting other
countries besides the United States?
So as we're taping this--
I'll give you a state of the world--
as we're taping this, right now Panda only
affects English queries.
So it can affect queries in Japan or in the UK, but only
if the query is English.
But we have been exploring ways where we can improve the
coverage of Panda and apply it worldwide.
And so we have some stuff that's currently in testing.
It has to go through the full evaluation process.
But it looks, actually, pretty positive right now.
So I'm very excited about it.
So by the time you get to watch this video, it very much
might be the case that we've rolled out the international
version of Panda.
It has taken some time, because there are many
different languages, many different countries, and we
don't want to just rush something out to
have rushed it out.
We really want to test it and make sure that it improves
quality in the ways that we want it to and the way that we
expect it to.
And so, personally, I don't think that it's any problem
whatsoever to have waited a while and make sure that we
get all the signals that we think really help and try to
find the ways that we can avoid false positives.
And so, hopefully by the time you watch this, we should be
very close, or possibly even have just launched Panda for
international stuff.
So not just English, but any language around the world.