Google Toolbar for IE New Feature continuation

Google Toolbar for IE New Feature continuation

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Aside from the alternate URL suggestion in case of typo error leading to a 404 message two other problems addressed by Google Toolbar for IE’s new feature include DNS errors and connection failures.

DNS errors - Typo errors can also result in non-existent domain names instead of valid URLs. For example: http://www.doublespark-seo.com.uk/ Instead of simply giving a “Server not found” error the new feature suggests similar URLs so that users will realise they actually mistyped http://www.doublespark-seo.co.uk/

Connection failures - Connection failures are inevitable even with good hosting. In case your server is temporarily down Google will automatically show a link to the cached version of your page. This is very useful indeed for pages that want their content (though not neccessarily the most updated content) to always be accessible. Note that this is the same cached page that shows up in the Google search results. If no cached page shows up in the Google search results it might be that you have disallowed caching. In my opinion this is perhaps the most useful of the three new features since we want to be able to give service to users as much as possible.

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