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Linkedin 404 page: bad review 5

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Malcolm Coles

You expect big websites to have nicely styled 404 pages:

Linked In 404 page

LinkedIn seems to have a bit of work to do in that department.

Its 404 page appears to be a raw error output from its server.

Even this blog has a nicer error page than that!

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5 Responses to “Linkedin 404 page: bad review”

1. 

   Christian Schenk says:

   January 13, 2009 at 7:26 am

   And it reveals the version of Apache Tomcat they're using. Nice!

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   Seo Phillip! says:

   April 6, 2009 at 4:47 am

   Personally I think that linked in is load tosh, It merely proves how crap it is by the server response 404.

   I'm glad you brought this to our attention though, nice post

   Phill

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   Microsoft people says:

   April 17, 2009 at 4:01 pm

   Well its great when you are debugging and developing the website. But when you are finished it should be replaced with proper 404 pages

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4. 

   Anand says:

   May 13, 2009 at 9:27 am

   How did you get there? I see this error page: http://www.linkedin.com/adssd

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  Malcolm Coles says:

  May 13, 2009 at 10:48 am

  It actually has two. The nice one you've linked to, and the broken one. You get the broken one if you link to a real user profile and add / at the end. Like this: http://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmcoles/ instead of http://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmcoles

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