Getting around the dreaded code 404 (page not found)

Hate seeing 404 pages all the time or you click a Google search result only to find the page has been deleted? If so this is the instructable for you!

Step 1 Get the bookmarklet

Make a new bookmark and were the url should go enter this code:

javascript:document.location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:'+document.location.href.replace(/http:\/\//,)

there have been reports of it not working in Firefox thanks to colin353 for making a FF version:

javascript:document.location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:'+document.location.href.replace("http://","");

name it 404 killer

Comments

[munchman]

This is really cool, I've actually been looking for something like this for a while. I hope you don't mind, linked to it on my blog.

[colin353]

nice hack, doesn't work in firefox

fixed it for you:

javascript:document.location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:'+document.location.href.replace("http://","");

[liammk]

added this anyway

[liammk]

it works in ff for me