For the past several days there has been a significant increase in the number of complaints about a Google Search Console error that reads “failed hostload exceeded.” This error is happening within Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool after a user tries to use the “request indexing” feature.
It seems based on early communication from Google that this error is being caused by abuse by spammers that are overloading the request indexing feature within Google Search Console. Google has not officially posted a root cause or when this issue…