Google Remove URL Language Now Reads "Temporarily Hide"

Oct 1, 2015 - 8:08 am 0 by

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Google has made a small but important change to the Google Search Console "Remove URL" section. It is just a language change, no functionality has changed. They changed the button to remove URLs from the Google index from "create a new removal request" to "temporarily hide."

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Why did they make the change?

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter "this is just to make it clearer that it's time-limited."

I agree, it does make it clearer.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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