Google Webmasters Tool Removes ‘Not Selected’ Option

Google has confirmed the news of the exclusion of the “not selected” filter from Google Webmaster Tool’s Index Status report because it Google believes that this option was causing confusion than actually helping webmasters with their sites.

Earlier, the “not selected” would signify either:

•  It redirects to another page
•  It has a rel=”canonical” to another page
•  Our algorithms have detected that its contents are substantially similar to another URL and picked the other URL to symbolize the content.