404 errors with the new Google Toolbar

[BigAlReturns]

There's been some buzz today about the new version of Google Toolbar (beta5), and how it takes over, some might say hijacks(!) 404 error pages. I was concerned at first, but fortunately Matt Cutts has written a good post fully explaining the behaviour: How 404 pages work in Google Toolbar Beta 5
The basic crux of the matter is - make your 404 error pages greater than 512bytes in size - something any good webmaster should be doing anyway! So a bit of a false alarm, but good to know.

[ryanhellyer]

Hmm, interesting.

It's certainly heading down an interesting (bad?) path, but I can see the use to some users. Many standard 404 pages are pretty awful, so this seems to be an upgrade from there at least.

All of my sites have a custom 404 error page anyway, so it won't affect me as a web admin.