Changelog — Version History
Every change to the reference layer, with evidence and rationale
ALL 25 SYSTEMS HAVE DEEP DIVES — Phase 04 content complete
August 2, 2026
24 Deep Dives covering ALL 25 systems. 327 claims with evidence mapping across E-E-A-T dimensions. Every system from NavBoost (S1) to Mustang/SuperRoot (S22) has analytical content with claim-level evidence codes. Build: 93 pages.
Deep Dives 11-13: OriginalContentScore, contentEffort, Topic-Embeddings
August 2, 2026
Three Deep Dives covering the content quality architecture: /deep-dive/original-content-score (13 claims, Experience primaer — measures content originality), /deep-dive/content-effort (11 claims, Expertise primaer — estimates editorial effort), /deep-dive/topic-embeddings (13 claims — focus vectors + radius for topic relevance). Together these complete the content quality picture: originality (what's new), effort (how much work), and relevance (what it's about).
Deep Dives 8-10: IS-Calibration, SpamBrain, chard
August 2, 2026
Three Deep Dives: /deep-dive/is-calibration (14 claims, [A] hardest evidence — DOJ/sworn rater system), /deep-dive/spambrain (13 claims, [O] official + [B] leak — AI spam detection, scaled content abuse), /deep-dive/chard (17 claims, [B]+[O] — page-level content quality, YMYL standards, calibration chain IS->chard->NSR).
Sixth + Seventh Deep Dives — FreshnessTwiddler + Datums-Triangulation
August 2, 2026
Two Deep Dives sharing the same patent (US7346839B2): /deep-dive/freshness-twiddler (17 claims: QDF, Instant Glue, content update scoring, staleness detection) and /deep-dive/date-triangulation (17 claims: six inception date sources, multi-source triangulation). Both have Stufe 2 patent bridges via Cutts/Haahr.
Fifth Deep Dive — Anchor-Spam (Penguin-Erbe)
August 2, 2026
Fifth Schicht 2 article: /deep-dive/anchor-spam. 5 sections covering two-layer detection (phraseAnchorSpamPenalty + IsAnchorBayesSpam), Google bombing era, patent mechanism (US8577893B1 reference context analysis), ranking architecture, and SEO implications. 19 claims with evidence mapping.
Fourth Deep Dive — hostAge-Sandbox
August 2, 2026
Fourth Schicht 2 article: /deep-dive/hostage-sandbox. 5 sections covering passive damping mechanism, patent analysis (US7346839B2 Claims 38-40: domain expiration, DNS monitoring, name server quality), inception date formula (H = L / log(F+2)), ranking architecture, and SEO implications. 18 claims with evidence mapping.
Cross-links + chatbot corpus expansion
August 2, 2026
Bidirectional cross-links: System pages now link to related Deep Dives and E-E-A-T Pillars. Deep Dive pages link to related Pillars. Chatbot corpus expanded with 65 Deep Dive claims (evidence-mapped) and 5 Pillar hub pages.
Pillar Pages — hub-and-spoke architecture
August 2, 2026
5 pillar hub pages: /pillar/eeat (overview), /pillar/experience, /pillar/expertise, /pillar/authority, /pillar/trust. Each connects primary and indirect systems to Deep Dives. Hub-and-spoke architecture complete.
Third Deep Dive — Q* and P* ranking architecture
August 2, 2026
Third Schicht 2 article: /deep-dive/q-star. 6 sections covering the DOJ-revealed two-signal architecture (Q* quality + P* popularity), NSR chunk-based computation, Q*/P* interaction, hand-crafted signal design (PXR0356), and SEO implications. 18 claims with evidence mapping.
Second Deep Dive — Panda site quality system
August 2, 2026
Second Schicht 2 article: /deep-dive/panda. 8 sections covering Panda's site-wide demotion mechanism, the content farm era, the Navneet Panda name bridge (inventor name = update name = Stufe 1), patent analysis (6 Stufe 1 patents, 1 Stufe 2 Ofitserov dwell-time), BabyPandaV2 evolution, and SEO implications. 24 claims with evidence mapping.
First Deep Dive — NavBoost click signal analysis
August 2, 2026
First Schicht 2 article: /deep-dive/navboost. 7 sections covering NavBoost mechanism, click signals (goodClicks/badClicks/lastLongestClicks), 13-month window, DOJ trial revelations, patent analysis, ranking architecture, and SEO implications. 23 claims with evidence mapping.
Agent Rank patent review — entity-level gap documented
August 1, 2026
Agent Rank patent family (US7565358B2, US8296293B2, US9002856B2, US20070033168A1) reviewed. All Google LLC, inventors Minogue/Tucker. No system mapping — entity level missing from 2024 API leak.
Link-Spam patent review — assignee check catches 4 non-Google patents
August 1, 2026
US8577893B1 'Ranking based on reference contexts' added as [P] to System 17 (Anchor-Spam / Penguin-Erbe). Inventors: Anna Patterson, Paul Haahr. Stufe 2.
US7953763B2, US8250114B2 (Google, Stufe 3): link farm detection via PageRank derivatives — link structure, not anchor text. US7533092B2 (Yahoo, not Google): TrustRank line. US7349901B2, US20090198673A1, US20110087648A1 (Microsoft, not Google).
OriginalContentScore patent review — discarded (Stufe 3)
July 31, 2026
US11354342B2 family (4 patents, Google LLC, inventors Carbune/Anders) reviewed and discarded. Stufe 3 — functional similarity only.
hostAge/Freshness/Datums-Triangulation patents — one patent covers three systems
July 31, 2026
US7346839B2 added as [P] to System 19 (hostAge-Sandbox). Claims 38-40: domain legitimacy scoring (expiration date, DNS records, name server age). Stufe 2.
US7346839B2 added as [P] to System 24 (FreshnessTwiddler / RealTimeBoost). Claims 6-14, 15-21, 22-29: content update scoring, staleness detection, link freshness. Stufe 2.
US7346839B2 added as [P] to System 25 (Datums-Triangulation). Claims 2-5: multi-source inception date. Stufe 2.
Panda patent layer — 7 patents as [P], inventor = update name
July 30, 2026
7 patents added as [P] to System 16 (Panda): US8682892B1, US9195944B1, US9031929B1, US9760641B1, US9767157B2, US9684697B1, US10055467B1. 6x Stufe 1 (inventor Navneet Panda = update name), 1x Stufe 2 (Ofitserov, dwell-time).
NavBoost patent layer — 3 patents as [P], DOJ confirmed
July 30, 2026
3 patents added as [P] to System 1 (NavBoost): US10229166B1, US8661029B1, US8938463B1. All Stufe 1 — inventor Hyung-Jin Kim confirmed as NavBoost developer via DOJ Exhibit PXR0356.
US9092510B1 discarded (Stufe 3): different inventors (Stets, Paskin), no Kim connection. Temporal component could relate to FreshnessTwiddler but functional similarity only.
Interactive tools — Myth or Proven lookup + corpus chatbot
July 30, 2026
/myth-or-belegt: client-side fuzzy search against systems.json + fields.json with evidence-code badges. /ask: chatbot with full corpus in system prompt (~31k tokens, no RAG), direct fetch to Anthropic Messages API (claude-3-5-haiku-20241022), rate limiting (10 msgs/hour/IP).
Initial reference layer — 25 systems, 38 fields, 50 pages
July 30, 2026
25 systems documented from Google API leak (May 2024) with [B] field references. 38 fields documented in fields.json. 8 best practices in bestpractices.json. 50 system pages (25 EN + 25 DE) with SSG via generateStaticParams. Interactive EEAT Mechanics map with searchParams-based filtering.