Google Switches to Generic 404 Pages

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

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

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

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