What's Real-Time mean?

Penguin is a filter designed to capture sites that are spamming Google’s search results in ways that Google’s regular spamming systems might not detect. Introduced in 2012, it has operated on a periodic basis.

In other words, the Penguin filter would run and catch sites deemed spammy. Those sites would remain penalized even if they improved and changed until the next time the filter ran, which could take months.

The last Penguin update, Penguin 3.0, happened on October 17, 2014. Any sites hit by it have waited nearly two years for the chance to be free.

Those long delays are now to be a thing of the past, according to Google. With this latest release, Penguin becomes real-time. As Google recrawls and reindexes pages — which happens constantly — those pages will be assessed by the Penguin filter. Pages will be caught and/or freed by Penguin as part of this regular process.

As Google said in its post:

With this change, Penguin’s data is refreshed in real time, so changes will be visible much faster, typically taking effect shortly after we recrawl and reindex a page.

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Zwielicht said:

Basically, if your site is penalised and you successfully correct the issue, your site's penalty will be removed much faster.

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HallLiz said:

No it means if your site was already penned.
You fix the issue they will crawl it faster to check if the issues were fixed. Now they will lift the penn faster

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Zwielicht said:

Basically, if your site is penalised and you successfully correct the issue, your site's penalty will be removed much faster.
http://searchengineland.com/google-updates-penguin-says-now-real-time-part-core-algorithm-259302

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