Discovered — currently not indexed
A Search Console status meaning Google knows a URL exists but has not crawled it yet, typically because of crawl capacity or low crawl…
Crawling Indexing
Crawled — currently not indexed
A Search Console status meaning Google fetched a URL but chose not to index it, usually a quality, duplication or value judgement.
In full
Unlike 'Discovered', the content has been seen and rejected or deferred. Frequent causes are near-duplicate templated content, thin pages, doorway-like location or variant pages, and pages that add nothing beyond what is already indexed elsewhere. Resubmitting via URL Inspection rarely helps; improving the page's distinctiveness and internal link support does.
Example
Twelve near-identical 'plumber in [city]' pages are all crawled, but Google indexes only the two with genuinely local content.
Related terms
Thin content
Pages with little or no substantive value of their own — scraped, auto-generated, doorway-like, or near-empty templated pages.
Doorway pages
Pages or sites created to rank for many similar queries and funnel users to a single destination, providing no unique value themselves.
Duplicate content
Substantively identical or near-identical content available at more than one URL, within a site or across sites.
Helpful, reliable, people-first content
Google's stated content standard: content created primarily for people, that demonstrates first-hand expertise and leaves readers feeling…