| I need to test this... My work site is all one big customized 404 error page. It uses the customized 404 error page, along with the URL requested, to figure out what content the user wanted and to display it for them. If this interferes with custom 404 error pages, this might interfere with my entire website. It looks like I'll need to set up the Google Toolbar (in a sandbox, of course), to see what, if anything, it does.
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| DNS polluters Then there's the offshore DNS polluters who register all manner of garbage names like gogogogogogogog.com and then redirect them all to their fake search engine (munky.com is one example) that you at first think is a legit link, but soon realize that you find yourself on a click through.
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Re: I need to test this... Ok, thanks to SandboxIE I was able to install the Google Toolbar Beta without *really* installing it on my system. I had some trouble getting the toolbar to hijack my bad URLs at first, until I turned on the "Browse by name in the address bar" option. After that, Google would replace:
»www.pcqanda.com/This/URL/Does/Not/Exist/
with a Google search page (with the search form populated with "pc q This URL Does Not Exist").
However, navigating to my work's website at:
»www.nehealth.com/Medical_Care/SAM/
worked just fine.
It looks like this is slightly overblown. First of all, this is a beta, not a final release feature (yet). Secondly, it appears to keep the feature off by default.
It's not the best feature Google's thought up, but it doesn't appear to be overtly evil either. (And definitely not as bad as the ISP/Verisign mistyped domain name ad pages.)
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All you need to do is to include lines similar to the code below in the .htaccess file (assuming your work site can use a .htaccess file) to redirect without producing a 404 error.
ErrorDocument 401 /noaccess.html
ErrorDocument 403 /noaccess.html
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
I just installed the Google beta toolbar in question, and on my web site and other sites (including dslreports.com) that use similar methods to handle url redirection, the Google toolbar did not redirect to its own 404 page.
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| Actually, my work's website runs on IIS so we don't use .htaccess. It's quite simple to do in IIS, actually. Simply set a custom 404 page (e.g. 404Processor.asp) in the site's Error Pages tab. Then have that page look at the query string that it is given and do something based on that. In the case of my site, it parses it out to determine which page the user wants to see then pulls content from the database.
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