A few months ago, we introduced the new Search Console. Here are some updates on how it's progressing.
Welcome "URL inspection" tool
One of our most common user requests in Search Console is for more details on how Google Search sees a specific URL. We listened, and today we've started launching a new tool, “URL inspection,” to provide these details so Search becomes more transparent. The URL Inspection tool provides detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages, directly from the Google index.
Enter a URL that you own to learn the last crawl date and status, any crawling or indexing errors, and the canonical URL for that page. If the page was successfully indexed, you can see information and status about any enhancements we found on the page, such as linked AMP version or rich results like Recipes and Jobs.
URL is indexed with valid AMP enhancement
If a page isn't indexed, you can learn why. The new report includes information about noindex robots meta tags and Google's canonical URL for the page.
URL is not indexed due to ‘noindex’ meta tag in the HTML
A single click can take you to the issue report showing all other pages affected by the same issue to help you track down and fix common bugs.
We hope that the URL Inspection tool will help you debug issues with new or existing pages in the Google Index. We began rolling it out today; it will become available to all users in the coming weeks.
More exciting updates
In addition to the launch of URL inspection, we have