Comments on: Ask Mike: 404 Errors

By: Ja'aj

Ja'aj — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:40:49 +0000

“Done something wrong” as in “ask for a question that is no longer there”.
Well… WHERE did I get the LINK, then?
“Done something wrong” is typical Yahoo! speak.
How about this…
When Yahoo! deletes a question, they DELETE it?
Then, we won’t “ask for a question that isn’t there”.

By: Robbie Noche

Robbie Noche — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:35:24 +0000

You finally answered question that bugged for the last four months.

By: Calimecita

Calimecita — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:44:43 +0000

“How about the NEXT blog be about the 999 error that Yahoo generates – or perhaps we could have one entitled �Your Report Matter� ;););)”

ROFL!

I second kr_toronto’s suggestion

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:10:54 +0000

Whatever it means it’s a pain in the arse when it pops up.

By: yewnewb

yewnewb — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:12:21 +0000

Not Found = Not Found

Also, I eat broccoli.

By: CybX Systems

CybX Systems — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:31:27 +0000

Of course, since 1.1 came out they added relevance.

By: CybX Systems

CybX Systems — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:29:27 +0000

Actually, the inventors of the HTTP protocol did NOT say 40x is a group.
There are hidden requests behind the codes, FTP, SMTP, POP and more. Those codes were saved from them, along time ago it was all TELe communications NETwork and Disk Operating Systems. All through, usually back then it was through one port in small systems, thats why they used protocols, otherwise they might as well called them ports. Nowadays we use protocols on seperate ports and error codes were seperated to different protocols. Leaving a bunch of numbers that didn’t mean a thing to each other in sequence.
Thanks.
By CybX Systems – ASP.NET MVP

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:07 +0000

A 404 error doesn’t mean, �the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or [...] no other response is applicable.�

“404 Not Found” means exactly what it says. The resource you requested was not found.

By: Rachel K

Rachel K — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:01:12 +0000

the 404 error happens to me too, but ill type i google for example, and three of them will open hmselves up i new tabs. And google appears too. Theyre like pop ups,and I havent been to any unusual sites or anything.
it is really frustrating.

By: N8

N8 — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:41:05 +0000

Here’s a handy tutorial I wrote for making the most out of your 404 pages by customizing them.

Drive more traffic with custom error pages.
http://natebal.com/journal/2008/01/25/seo-tip-use-custom-error-pages-to-drive-traffic/