Google Disables Request Indexing Feature within Search Console

Google is disabling the “Request Indexing” feature of the URL Inspection tool within Search Console.

While this is temporary, the feature will be disabled for at least a few weeks.

Google is disabling “Request Indexing” in order to make infrastructure changes, the company says in an announcement:

We have disabled the "Request Indexing" feature of the URL Inspection Tool, in order to make some infrastructure changes. We expect it will return in the coming weeks. We continue to find & index content through our regular methods, as covered here: https://t.co/rMFVaLht6V

— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) October 14, 2020

The Request Indexing feature is part of the URL Inspection tool in Search Console. It can be used to request a crawl of individual URLs.

Request Indexing is most commonly used when site owners publish a new page or make changes to an existing page.

It speeds up the process of Google adding the new content to its search index, but does not offer any guarantees.