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Dear Google Webmasters,
With full respect, the existence of Google Submit URL is to index quickly a page or website. This is crucial for crawl speeds finding new websites / pages and is very important for a variety of conditions such as new articles about current news, current events, which should be fast in index and in the know by Google so readers can find out.
Another interest is to notify Google crawl, for example there is a hacked website, but has been taken by the webmaster to fix the hacked website. And then use Google Submit URL to tell Google that the website has been in the right way.
There are many good articles that require fast indexing using Google Submit URL, usually articles published by website owners about the latest news, health, latest data, and so forth. Not only from well-known websites, but from other webmasters who try to build their website from scratch.
There are a lot of good people who really need Google Submit URL with good intentions too, such as web publisher dealing with the latest data about environmental research, air quality, health, business, finance, economics of a region, census population, the price of basic needs, and so forth. Of course things like this should be immediately in the index and known by Google to be seen by people who need that information.
Our main thought is to think well about the usefulness of the Google Submit URL tool. Many things require indexing very quickly (within seconds or minutes) because we live in a very dynamic world. Of course the usefulness of this tool is to support it.
So we think Google should revive the function of Google Submit URL as it is, so that many good people there can get benefit, their new websites / articles they have created based on accurate data can be immediately indexed and read by people who need it.
Regarding abuse, we think not by turning off the function of this tool. That is wrong! The analogy is like when you want to catch a mouse, but by burning the whole granary or house. There are still many other ways to stop abuse such as not ranking websites containing spam, or not indexing them later after an indication of spam / abuse is found.
So, please wisdom once again, we should think well because the purpose of this tool is to quickly index useful articles published by people from all over the world to make the world of information better.
We hope the best so that Google Submit URL can be enabled again and accepting the new URLs.
The most important question you could answer is why is Google showing random pages on the results? In my case, the correct page is my Home Page, but Google is choosing a completely random one. I never had problems with this kind of thing before. After this update, my website lost 50% of its traffic. Please, fix the problem; you are destroying my business and my life literally.