This is the third core update of 2025 and it took over 18 days to complete. The third and likely final core update of 2025, the December 2025 core update, is now rolling out and complete. It started ...

Google completed the December 2025 core update this week and it hit some news publishers incredibly hard. I posted the annual Google algorithm update infographic. Google’s Frankenstein AI-recipes are ...

Now that the Google December 2025 core update is officially done, some are looking at the damage it caused. A number of very visible news publishers saw some significant declines in Google Search ...

Tension: Businesses build strategies around Google’s standards while having zero say in how those standards shift overnight. Noise: Panic-driven speculation after each update obscures the structural ...

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On Wednesday, Google started rolling out a second December 2025 update for Pixel phones, with factory and OTA images now available for manual install. What we know of this out-of-cycle update comes ...

Recently, Android users had a problem with their screens where the Google Play system update showed a date of November 2025, even though it was up to date. Google said this is just a mistake in the ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade for multiple publications, including Times Internet, Guiding Tech, Android ...

The third and likely final core update of 2025, the December 2025 core update, is now rolling out and complete. It started on December 11, 2025 and was completed about 18 days and 2 hours later on ...