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JohnMu Google employee  
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 More options Aug 15 2008, 7:18 pm
From: JohnMu
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Aug 15 2008 7:18 pm
Subject: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
Hi everyone!

I thought I'd just piggyback onto our latest blog post about 404s and
ask you what your favorite 404 page is!

Here's the blog post and the others in this series so far:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/now-that-weve-bid-...
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/farewell-to-soft-4...
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-404-week-at-we...

Have you found any cool ones? What kind of information do you like to
see on 404 pages?

Have a great weekend!
John


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JLH  
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 More options Aug 15 2008, 7:30 pm
From: JLH
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:30:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
I like fark's http://www.fark.com/kladklads because it mentions beer,
and that's a good thing.

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 More options Aug 16 2008, 12:27 pm
From: Sasch
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
Trust you to take the beer approach. ;-)

At least Weebl & Bob have a DJ Kitty.

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/fnagen.html

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webado  
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 More options Aug 16 2008, 5:35 pm
From: webado
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:35:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
I've seen some relaly wacky ones. There are sites dedicated to funny
404's.

I have a mildly funny one one one site. I couldn't brink myself to be
any spoofier - need to keep a bit of decorum still ;)
http://tinyurl.com/6bww5w

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Susan Moskwa Google employee  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 4:40 pm
From: Susan Moskwa
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 4:40 pm
Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
I saw a pretty cool page recently:

http://www.bluedaniel.com/404.shtml

Lots of attention to detail. You can even go inside the train once the
doors open!
Too bad it returns a 200, though.


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JLH  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 4:44 pm
From: JLH
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:44:37 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
Now that is a good use for flash!  All that work and nobody checked to
see if returns the right response?

And yup, it's indexed:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:bluedaniel.com+404&num=100&hl=en&...

Sigh.

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JohnMu Google employee  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 5:39 pm
From: JohnMu
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
Actually, that 404 page does return the right result code, but only
for URLs that don't exist :-). Technically, the page shown exists at /
404.shtml, so in a way, it can return 200. Notice that any other bad
URL on that site does return the proper result code: http://www.bluedaniel.com/badurl

Apache (and I believe IIS as well) handle 404 errors that way -- they
have a page which exists, which is returned instead of the missing
page. The result code is created by the server and not by the page. In
other words, if you don't know the name of the actual 404 page, you'll
always see a 404 result code.

Now whether or not that page should be indexed I guess is a different
question altogether. To be or not to be ... :-)

John


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Susan Moskwa Google employee  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 5:59 pm
From: Susan Moskwa
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 5:59 pm
Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
Oh snap! (as the kids would say)

We should create a verb for when you think you know what's going on,
and then JohnMu comes in and blows your simplistic analysis out of the
water with his superior powers of analysis. Then you'll have something
to say when you're shaking your fist at the computer screen, such as
"Darn it--Muellerized again!"


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Susan Moskwa Google employee  
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 More options Aug 21 2008, 6:01 pm
From: Susan Moskwa
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:01:30 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 6:01 pm
Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
And by "you" I mean "me".  :-P

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 More options Aug 21 2008, 6:27 pm
From: JLH
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 6:27 pm
Subject: Re: What's your favorite 404 page & why?
We've all been DIMA before.  But he's always nice about it and says
Actually or Generally to soften the blow.

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