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

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Post by patrickk »

yror10 wrote: post #36
ZoFreX wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm on .ie and I have it:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2cf8kdh.jpg

I only noticed a friend with it on his account last week. The next time I singed into my account it came up, and it's been there ever since.

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

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Post by edw519 »

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…

I like Yahoo's better:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkenning/464845773/

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

#53

Post by redfloatplane »

yror10 wrote: post #36
ZoFreX wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

.ie has google instant, but not the new statusbar. I've got it from Ireland on google.com though.

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

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Post by corin_ »

davidu wrote: post #43
tuxcanfly wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`//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.

But they're clearly doing their best to minimise file size, and so using // cuts down on a few characters.

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

#55

Post by dchest »

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.

To get the new look, I just deleted cookies from google.com.

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

#56

Post by switch007 »

leif wrote: post #44
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.

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 pa…

Why did they not remove whitespace too?

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

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Post by leif »

switch007 wrote: post #56
leif wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pa…

Why did they not remove whitespace too?

No idea, I saw that too and was puzzled.

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

#58

Post by windsurfer »

davidu wrote: post #43
tuxcanfly wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`//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.

Well maybe they will...?

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

#59

Post by yror10 »

patrickk wrote: post #51
yror10 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm on .ie and I have it: http://i52.tinypic.com/2cf8kdh.jpg I only noticed a friend with it on his account last week. The next time I singed into my account it came up, and it's been there ever since.

thats not it

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

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Post by asymmetric »

leif wrote: post #44
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.

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 pa…

don't knkow if it's firefox inserting them, but i do see closing tags, apart from

elements, but that's allowed.

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