So, the new 404 page isn't really useful. They could maybe add some links to help people find what they were looking for.
Maybe someone at Google should take a look at these very helpful tips on what to include on a 404 page:
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
#72Earlier 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?
I'm guessing it's not much of an issue when it's sent compressed over the wire.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#73Check out ours: http://loggly.com/404
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#74Google 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...
And have you noticed the changes to Docs? Their list display is finally useful!
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#75Check out ours: http://loggly.com/404
Aww, typing "skedaddle" doesn't skedaddle :(
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#76Given 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.
>> I prefer the idea of a more intelligent 404 page
There's a script for that: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your...
Example:
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://www.example.com
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#77Google 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...
And have you noticed the changes to Docs? Their list display is finally useful!
Yeah, though I think they should cut buck on using bold font all over the place. That should be use for emphasis but the Goog wants to use it as the default.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#78Love it. Especially the changes they have been making. Keeping Google's signature simplicity, but also adding a little modern look. to it.
Kudos to Goog.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#79Earlier 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.
Try this: https://mail.google.com/asdfasdf
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#80Google should at least put search bar on 404 error page. Isn't that the most basic thing?