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Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by AdamTReineke »

ZoFreX wrote: post #27
bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

This hasn't rolled out for everybody yet - I see it at work, but I don't see it (when signed into the same account) at home.

Cache issue? I see it on my account regardless of where I sign in.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by yror10 »

andrewingram wrote: post #18

Given the size of Google, I wonder if there was a whole team tasked with this development. A 404 page for a company as big as Google is an awfully big responsibility for just one person :) To be honest, I prefer the idea of a more intelligent 404 page. You'd think Google would have sufficient horsepower to make a good guess at what you might have been trying to find.

This is already shown by the rareness of a google 404. You hardly ever get it these days. Except if a server crashes for about 1 second, (where my preference would be "you are the lucky winner to click your mouse at the same second as our server crash!"

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by Griever »

ZoFreX wrote: post #27
bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

This hasn't rolled out for everybody yet - I see it at work, but I don't see it (when signed into the same account) at home.

Same thing happens to me. I'm assuming its a cookie or cache issue.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by yror10 »

ZoFreX wrote: post #27
bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

This hasn't rolled out for everybody yet - I see it at work, but I don't see it (when signed into the same account) at home.

It is on google.com but most of the other country domains (.ie, .co.uk, etc...) havent got it yet. Currently its the same with google instant.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by cakeforcerberus »

andrewingram wrote: post #18

Given the size of Google, I wonder if there was a whole team tasked with this development. A 404 page for a company as big as Google is an awfully big responsibility for just one person :) To be honest, I prefer the idea of a more intelligent 404 page. You'd think Google would have sufficient horsepower to make a good guess at what you might have been trying to find.

Making the new 404 HTML page was probably someone's "20% project" for a year.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by sahillavingia »

siddhant wrote: post #16

I liked the older one better - http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a…

Just FYI, that wasn't their actual one, but the 404 for their April Fool's joke: http://www.google.com/tisp/
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