Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
by citricsquid on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:57AM
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This was something I was thinking too. I watched a video from Matt Cutts yesterday where he mentioned they have a "team" (I guess it could just be 2 people, but it sounds like more) who are entirely dedicated to parsing 404 pages that return 200 response codes. I too wonder if they had a team just for this, or maybe they have a "usability" team who were tasked with this?
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
by elliottcarlson on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @10:22PM
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This would be a completely different thing though - parsing 404 error pages that incorrectly return a status 200 OK could cause broken links to appear as duplicate content when crawled. Didn't think about this before but I am sure this does require q dedicated team to be able to distinguish this kind of content.