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Google Switches to Generic 404 Pages

Ankur Kumar

Google previously was serving pretty useful 404 errors or pages that are displayed when someone types an incorrect URL in the address bar or when the requested page has been removed from Google’s servers.

For instance, in the previous implementation, if someone requested a non-existent page like google.com/email – it will show them links to related sites, like Gmail, instead of serving a dead-end 404 error.

That has however changed recently and Google now serves generic 404 errors that point nowhere. The new design doesn’t even have a search box. Beautiful but less-useful.