Now, As you may or may not know, on February 24, 2011, Google rolled out its most significant algorithm change since it first launched in the late 90′s. The update adversely affected about 12% of all US based websites in its index. A huge impact if you were one of the 12 percent.
This update has been code-named “Panda” afterNavneet Panda, an Indian born software engineer at Google. The important thing to note here is that Navneet is the person primarily responsible for the “breakthrough” that Singhal describes above, hence the name.
Through my research, and verified by Singhal’s last comment above. I’ve identified that this breakthrough is based on SVM orSupport Vector Machinecomputational analysis. So, in essence, Panda = SVM.