Summary: External traffic to<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/17/7407735/spain-drops-google-news-loses-traffic" target="_blank"> Spanish news websites</a> has fallen by 10 to 15 percent after Google removed the country’s publishers from its free news index; Non-HTTPS sites get warning soon in Chrome. Plus Ross and John look into the year of algorithm changes including Payday Loan 2.0 - Targeting highly spammy categories, Google Panda 4.0 - 7.5 percentof English Language queries hit, Authorship Photo Drop - Signaling big changes to come.
