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Google does these things not in one step, they are handled “asynchronous”.

  1. Crawl requests are handled by an army of independend servers, that means a crawl request can be answered by one, multiple or no servers.
  2. Once a site was crawled it will be analyzed for javascript, css and similar things.
    This can cause additional crawls which will again do the same thing.
  3. Completely independend from that the raw data will be analyzed at a later time, put into databases with the right keywords and weighted for initial “importance”.

So what happens is that Step 1 and 2 were finished but Step 3 is not completed.
If Google does not detect security/content violations it will index any site it crawled, usually within a few days, rarely more than a few weeks.

So it’s mainly patience, you can not speed up or influence the last step once it started.

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