Error 404 (Not Found)!!1
Ha!1 Nice to know that even the almighty at Google are prone to some typos every once and a while.
What makes you think that's a typo? We're not allowed a bit of humor every so often? :)
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
#42Given 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.
I've heard about the 20% things but look a the page and ask yourself. Anyone could have made that in 5 minutes + maybe a week for discussion.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also: href=//www.google.com/ Title is funny :) I think they could drop margin:0; padding:0 from css, default values in browsers won't change much for this type of page anyway.
`//www.google.com` will automatically translate the url to http/https depending on the requested protocol.
Which is interesting since Google doesn't serve a 404 over HTTPS as far as I can tell.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#44Given 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.
Google's most frequently accessed pages (most prominently, the homepage itself) are designed by a team of pretty high-level engineers, to reduce latency and bandwidth requirements, by stripping bytes. Every change is reviewed with extreme scrutiny. I'm sure the 404 page was designed with similar care.
If you view source, for example, the image is base64 encoded, and they don't even bother closing their tags on the page, because that's more bytes and the browsers don't notice. This was very carefully engineered.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#45"That’s all we know." but is it 'useful' ?
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Making the new 404 HTML page was probably someone's "20% project" for a year.
I've heard about the 20% things but look a the page and ask yourself. Anyone could have made that in 5 minutes + maybe a week for discussion.
Of course. I was being sarcastic.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#47> "That's all we know." Not true. They know the sub-domain and the path. Either or both could be used to do something more intelligent.
They could use The Google 404 search widget thingie.
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://www.google.com'
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#48Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#49And the page doesn't include a search bar?
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the older ones do; however, I'm sure Google gives them a different 404 page (change your User-Agent to IE6 and see how different the search results HTML is).
We unfortunate users of IE6 get the new 404 page as well. I assume they just gave up on IE6 like most of the web-world has.
Yep here's what I see on our IE6 death machine:
