Google is hijacking 404 Error Pages

SO now they really know all about us ? LOL... The Truth is out there ?

 

Hmm matt's post is interesting, so you can override it server side.

As a side note I can't believe how mnay people posted "just uninstall it" as a reply or suggestion in this thread. How stupid. As webmasters we don't care about our visit being thrown around its all my visitor traffic I am thinking about. Never mind though since we can get rid of it our side it shouldn't be a problem.

 

Thanks, cormac. I don't get over here that often, but it's good to stop by sometimes.

 

I guess it will be non-evil if Google removes its search option.

If Google wants to do community service the toolbar should only show 404 error and link to index page of the website instead of stealing away the visitor.

Also if I look for say h*ttp://mywiki/someextension
I really don't want to see Google showing me options where to find it using Google search.

 

I think it's good move, there is no meaning of 404 pages or the pages are under constuction.

 

oh man that is going to really effect the people who purchase dropped domains and such. Worse yet if people have written 404 pages to get people back on track.

 

see google are trully evil! they are f**king around now with us web masters, and I couldn't care less about search engine rankings i get a million page views to all my sites daily and only 2% traffic comes from search engines


MattCuts i hope you are reading this you did reply few posts above and pass on the message to the not so bright spark at Google who came up with this scummy idea, google's colors are showing now

 

what gives google the right to fiddle with the default behavior if browsers? for Google's own profit??


and dont say you are doing this for the users as alot of users are used to default browser 404 page and this will only confuse them

if you are really doing this for the user why not show live.com or yahoo.com search instead? lets say 50% of time?? oh wait nvm you don't make money from them search engines



Matt you lost all credibility last year with the prank you did which was not funny and now your company starting to use tactics that spyware used to do


im sorry for being harsh but I had it with Google and their "do no evil" crap, as someone said on your blog "Do no Google" and "even Microsoft wouldn't come up with something like this"


and please don't try to spin this it only makes Google look more desparate

 

google sucks...

 

I am not surprised at all. Should I?

 

This is such BullSh*t!!! I'm having the same problem with Yahoo! I'm trying to develop an application which requires me to see my custom 404 page if the wrong page is typed in and even though I've set it correctly in my .htaccess file (yes I've checked it 10 times now and I'm no rookie) it seems that every other time I try it sends me to Yahoo search results. This is such crap! Why do I have to click my back button every time when I really want to see my OWN 404 page! How can this even be legal? I've uninstalled Yahoo's tool bar and it STILL does this. What a pain in the ass.