Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about which is less worse to use, millions of 404 error pages or 301 redirects. Gary’s answer cleared the air about how ...

HTTP Status Codes are a big part of the HTTP protocol that most of us have seen countless times in our web browsing and development. We are used to seeing 404 (Not Found), 200 (OK), and so forth.

Google has a new easter egg, mostly designed for server geeks and SEO geeks, at google.com/teapot. The page itself serves up an 418 response code, which is a server ...