As I reported last night at Search Engine Land, Penguin 2.0 / 4 is now live - this is the next generation Penguin update. As Google's Matt Cutts added, this impacts 2.3% of English queries and also impacts other languages but the percentage depends on the level of spam in those languages.

Matt officially announced it while on This Week In Google see towards the very end of episode 199.

Matt said on his blog:

We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, the site command may be a bit buggy for you right now and may not be resolved for about a week.

In short, some SEOs and webmasters began noticing that conducting a site command in Google for large sites would only return 30 results. I personally have not been able to replicate it but I've been getting random complaints about this on Twitter. Justin Briggs has a screen shot showing this in actions, where a site command for amazon.com only returns 30 results.

Google's Matt Cutts told us at Search Engine Land:

This is a temporary side effect of the domain clustering change that I mentioned in my video. We expect that site: will be back to showing lots of results by sometime next week.

The domain clustering change was

A Google Web Search Help thread had a solo post from a user upset to see a nude topless image show up in the knowledge graph box for a search for [kierston wareing]. I checked it last night, when it was first mentioned in the thread and indeed there was a topless image of Kierston Wareing showing in the top right section of the knowledge graph.

This morning, when I checked again, to my surprise, the image was completely removed. Here is a screen shot:

Last time this happened, it took days for it to be removed. Typically when people report inappropriate images in Google, it takes Google a lot of time to remove it.

I wonder if this was removed manually or Google has better checks in place to remove inappropriate images based on

As you may have heard, #ifihadglass winners are now being notified slowly that they can schedule a time to pick up Google Glass in NY or California. Google announced on Google+, "Over the next few weeks, weâll be slowly rolling out invitations to successful #ifihadglass applicants. If you were one of the successful applicants, please make sure you have +Project Glass in your Circles so we can send you a message." They made a similar announcement on Twitter.

Are you paranoid about missing your direct message or Google+ message?

Well, you should be able to spot check the get glass page to see if you got the invite to pick it up. Twitter users can sign in to see if they did get the pick up invite and Google+ users can just visit that page to

If you visit Google today, on their home page is a special Google Logo, aka Doodle, created by Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisconsin. Her Doodle won out the competition this year for the Doodle 4 Google award. The contest was "My Best Day Ever..." and Sabrina described her best day ever in this Doodle.

Her Doodle told the story of her reunion with her father as he returned from an 18-month deployment in Iraq. How heart warming.

Not only is her Doodle on the Google home page for millions to see, but also she will be receiving a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook computer and a $50,000 technology grant for her school.

Congrats Sabrina and I bet this is your second best day ever!

To see the other finalists, see the Google Blog.

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