Google Penguin for non-English queries?

[RBenedict]

Does anybody know if non-English queries were also 'hit' by the Google Penguin update?

All Penguin horror stories out there are from sites focusing on English queries, and in some (Dutch) industries I'm monitoring, some sites with spammy backlink profiles are still ranking.

[Vivamedia]

Hi Roel!

I´ve spoken to people in many different countries about this and they all confirm that the Penguin update is spread everywhere.

Google said this:
_The change will go live for all languages at the same time. For context, the initial Panda change affected about 12% of queries to a significant degree; this algorithm affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree that a regular user might notice. _

More reading: http://insidesearch.blogspot.se/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

Hope this will help you!