When will Google change its quite ugly 404 Not Found pages?
Like this one for example:
http://www.google.com/error

I think they should make 'em all look like this:
http://www.google.com/coop/error

What do you guys think?

The "ugly" page just uses font changes so it doesn't slow down your system with image loads etc.

The Co-op error page, on the other hand, loads an image and contains 9 (nine!) Javascripts.

Feel free to serve me the "ugly" one every time.

I'd be happy if the page just contained 3 bytes: 404

After all, you should never really see these pages.

Roger:
Yeah it loads slower, i agree..
But check out Microsoft's Not Found page for example:
http://www.microsoft.com/error

Don't you think Google should get more "serious" with its error pages? I'm sure they don't want to "offend" anyone. (hope i'm being clear here.. :/)

Agree to Tony
why should the 404 page contain crap when in anycase you are not going to see that page in detail. Why to slowdown loading on slow links or useless traffic on handhelds

i prefer the "light" 404 error page (that is full text)...
just for fun, take a look on area404

http://www.plinko.net/404/area404.asp

for several , categorized, 404 pages..

and.... do you remember WHY is called "404" ?

http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp

I assume google intentionally made their error pages simple.
If you are getting errors you want to be able to read the resulting error page and not have it aggravate any problems.

plinko thing is a nice one :)

I would think they would make the smallest 404 page size possible so people who are running scripts against Google's index wouldn't be killing even more bandwidth if they had larger 404 pages.

So why they are having two versions of 404 pages?

Here's another one ;
https://www.google.com/accounts/mail/error