Google’s favorite 404’s

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August 18, 2008 ||

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Google’s webmaster blog is currently observing a 404 week which aims to explain and answer questions related to status code 404’s.

In a recent post about 404’s the blog listed out a few amusing and interesting 404 pages designed by the respective site owners.

Using this list, blog points out some good practices webmasters should follow to help their users to make some sense out of 404’s and appropriately nagivate off the page but few of them are sheer fun.

Following is the list of 404’s listed by Google.

http://www.metrokitchen.com/nice-404-page
"If you’re looking for an item that’s no longer stocked (as I was), this makes it really easy to find an alternative."
-Riona, domestigeek

http://www.comedycentral.com/another-404
"Blame the robot monkeys"
-Reid, tells really bad jokes

http://www.splicemusic.com/and-another
"Boost your ‘Time on site’ metrics with a 404 page like this."
-Susan, dabbler in music and Analytics

http://www.treachery.net/wow-more-404s
"It’s not reassuring, but it’s definitive."
-Jonathan, has trained actual spiders to build websites, ants handle the 404s

http://www.apple.com/iPhone4g
"Good with respect to usability."
http://thcnet.net/lost-in-a-forest
"At least there’s a mailbox."
-JohnMu, adventurous

http://lookitsme.co.uk/404
"It’s pretty cute. "
-Jessica, likes cute things

http://www.orangecoat.com/a-404-page.html
"Flow charts rule."
-Sahala, internet traveller

http://icanhascheezburger.com/iz-404-page
"I can has useful links and even e-mail address for questions! But they could have added ‘OH NOES! IZ MISSING PAGE! MAYBE TIPO OR BROKN LINKZ?’ so folks’d know what’s up."
-Adam, lindy hop geek