Google launched its core updates on the 15th of August and marked another step in its ongoing mission to refine search results. This Google August 2024 Core Update is the second core update launched by Google in 2024, the March 2024 core update being the first one. This update continued to focus on promoting independent websites and publishers having good quality content and demoting websites with low-value SEO-first content. In an X post, Google posted, “Today we released the August 2024 core update.