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List of Brilliantly Moderated "404 Error Pages"

Like a human, the useless websites also need off day. When the Useless Web Index cannot find anything you want, would provide you with some services.
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The Worst of the Web: 5 Sites to Find Useless and Stupid Things on the Internet

The Useless Web Index hand-picks the most useless, pointless, or funny sites on the web, to make a large database of such drivel.
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Emotionally Intelligent Design: Why You Need It in Your Mobile App

by Anadea | September 13, 2018

It is a good place to trigger emotions of your site visitors. Most users reaching the 404 error page will try to leave it as soon as possible.
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Missing page on TheUselessWebIndex site

Microcopy Inspirations is a collection of ux writing examples, microcopy examples and copywriting examples. The missing page on TheUselessWebIndex site is an examples of good microcopy on websites and apps.
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Emotionally Intelligent Design: Why You Need It in Your Mobile App

by Anadea | September 13, 2018

Well-thought-out UX design of the 404 page will not only offer visitors links to relevant material, it will spark their interest and encourage to explore your offerings.
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10 Examples Of Creative 404 Error Pages

If you starting a new blog or website then you to know about 404 error. In recent years creatives are designing bespoke 404 pages that use humor, great UX or beautiful design.
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404: Die Top 50 der kreativsten Fehlerseiten im Weltennetz (Ausgabe 2018)

Andere Websites hingegen verbergen richtige Kunstwerke an dieser Stelle. Wir haben uns auf die Suche nach den 50 kreativsten Fehlerseiten im Weltennetz gemacht.
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Fascinating 404 Page Examples You Should See

When they can't find what your looking for it's ready with the perfect error page; a video of meerkats being meerkats and other amusing stuff.
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Custom 404 Error Pages: The Best 'Page Not Found' Examples That Save Broken Web Pages

The useless web index -- with their highly appropriate name - decided to give us the much-loved meerkat in their 404 error page design. The longer you spend on the page the more meerkats that arrive, so much so that after about 10 seconds there are at least eight of them on the screen.
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20 Examples Of Brilliantly Designed 404 Error Pages

The HTTP 404, 404 Not Found and 404 error message is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard response code, in computer network communications, to indicate that the client was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested. Checkout Brilliantly Designed 404 Error Pages.
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Take Me To A Useless Website (The Top Search Engines & Links)

If you are feeling bored with the Internet and want to try something new, then check out The Useless Web Index. They claim to be the world’s largest index of useless websites.
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L'art de la page 404 - Chaque lundi les plus belles et originales pages 404 du Web

February 26, 2018

Collection de sites plus inutiles les uns que les autres.
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Creative 404 Error Page Designs

Clicking on a broken link is a pain, 404 pages serve to alert the visitor that the page they were trying to find no longer exists, and to (hopefully) redirect them to another part of your site. Here’s some of the awesome Creative 404 Error Page Designs for your site.
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The Best 404 Pages That Ease The Frustration Of Web Design Errors

by Ross Brown | January 12, 2018

"The useless web index -- with their highly appropriate name - decided to give us the much-loved meerkat in their 404 error page design."
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20+ Fresh & Creative 404 Error Pages Examples For Your Inspiration

"In this list, we have collected 20 fresh and creative 404 error pages to see just for fun."
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20+ Fresh & Creative 404 Error Pages Examples For Your Inspiration

November 10, 2017

In this list, we have collected 20 fresh and creative 404 error pages to see just for fun.
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Πώς να δημιουργήσετε το τέλειο… “σφάλμα 404”

November 7, 2017

Όταν το μεγαλύτερο ευρετήριο άχρηστων ιστοσελίδων δεν μπορεί να βρει αυτό που ψάχνετε, μία είναι η λύση: Σουρικάτες
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6 Creative 404 Pages That Convert Users Into Paying Customers

"The Useless Web Index took advantage of their position as an entertainer and created an amusing 404 page that can’t leave you indifferent."
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404 Error! Diese kreativen Fehlerseiten sind zum Totlachen

"Kleine Agenturen aber auch bekannte Marken wie Nestlé oder Umbro machen es vor. Eine Auswahl von insgesamt 66 kreativen Fehlerseiten im Netz."
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10 przykładów kreatywnych stron 404

"Strona 404 pokazuje nam animację GIF z surykatkami, które mogą symbolizować nas, użytkowników, którzy trafili na złą podstronę. Pomysł dobry, poczucie humoru jeszcze lepsze!"
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Najgore na webu: 5 web odredišta s beskorisnim i glupim sadržajem

"Sve beskorisne stvari na internetu na jednom mjestu? To je misija ovog web odredišta koje bira najbesmislenija web odredišta."
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The Worst of the Web: 5 Sites to Find Useless and Stupid Things on the Internet

"The Useless Web Index hand-picks the most useless, pointless, or funny sites on the web, to make a large database of such drivel."
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10 interesting 404 error pages examples to spark your creativity

"We dare you to tell us if you saw sweeter error page than this one!..."
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Las páginas web más inútiles de Internet

"Llévame a una web inútil. theuselesswebindex.com recopila páginas inútiles y además te ofrece un botón desde el que puedes saltar a una página web inútil de forma totalmente aleatoria."
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Webdesign : 10 pages d’erreur 404 originales et inspirées

"Il fallait y penser : les suricates ont beau chercher, il ne parviennent pas à trouver la page web que vous cherchez."
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404 Error Pages: 40+ Killer Ideas to Improve Your Brand

"This site is already ridiculous, so it only stands to reason that their 404 error page is filled with meerkats who appear to be searching for something – your requested page perhaps?"
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Best 404 Page Designs & Why You Need It!

"...sit down and enjoy this inspiration list of 404 Page Designs from big and small brands as well as freelance designers."
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17 funny, entertaining and creative 404 pages

Tendrik.com wrote an article about funny, entertaining and creative 404 error pages and listed us at position 3. Denista Pilkova wrote that "Laughter is the best medicine. And combined with a video of sweet meerkats trying to find the page you want to visit – how can you not to smile."
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The Useless Web Index: El refugio para los sitios web inservibles

"La respuesta es: The Useless Web Index, una plataforma recolectora de este tipo de espacios digitales. Fue creada por un desarrollador alemán llamado Martin y el sitio asegura ser el índice mundial más grande de sitios inservibles."
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Sinnfreies Internet macht Spass

by Danja Nüesch | June 8, 2017

Media from Switzerland also report about us. The SRF Kultur says: "Die Website ist ein herrlicher Pool für Prokrastinierer – ganz ohne pädagogischen Wert.".
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What happens to the internet's most useless websites after their viral fame?

Megan Farokhmanesh (@Megan_Nicolett) from THEVERGE asked me to answer her some questions about The Useless Web Index.
In her article Megan wrotes that "Over the years, sites like The Useless Web Index have removed the heavy lifting of finding these forgotten sites. They aren’t built like a library, however. Instead, they re-create the context of any bit of useless internet: click a button and you’re flung to a random site in the directory."
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28 Cleverly Funny & Creative 404 Error Pages

inzonedesignstudio gathered "some of the funniest and most clever 404 error pages on the Internet today". You can find our 404 error page that is "Very creative, and very amusing video to watch" at position 3.
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