Google Removes Public Submit URL to Google Tool

Google removes popular search tool

Google has removed the public version of their submit URL tool. This tool allowed anyone to submit a URL to Google, as it wasn’t restricted to site owners only:

Former Public Google Search Tool

The announcement came from the Google Webmasters’ Twitter account:

Which naturally leads to the question:

There does not appear to be an immediate answer for this.

Why did google get rid of its public search tool to begin with? Google has not specifically commented on this but my guess is some users were abusing the system by submitting links on a…