Google Search Console was called what until May 20, 2015?

Google Search Console was called Google Webmaster Tools until May 20, 2015.

Google Webmaster Tools was a service for site owners and webmasters to monitor how Google crawled and indexed their websites. It provided information about search queries, crawl errors, backlinks, sitemap submissions, malware warnings, and other technical issues affecting visibility in Google Search.

Google renamed the service Google Search Console in May 2015. The new name reflected the fact that the tool served more than traditional “webmasters,” including marketers, developers, business owners, and other people responsible for websites. The change was a rebranding rather than the launch of an entirely separate product.

A common mix-up is confusing Search Console with Google Analytics. Analytics measures visitor behavior after people arrive at a site, while Search Console focuses on Google Search visibility, indexing, crawling, and technical search performance. Google later introduced features such as domain properties, which combine data from different protocols and subdomains into one view.