Add search to docs 404 page #1839
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design
Visual appearance of the built documentation
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Something we'd like to improve
No matter how good our docs are, there will always be users hitting 404s. In addition to the redirect strategy being discussed in #1820, can we add search to our 404 page?
As an example, here's a documentation 404. Anyone who hits that page will see this:
It's fun, but it's not helpful. What would be helpful, is if the 404 page was able to display relevant search results based on the bad URL and provide a search box for users to craft their own searches. Based on the URL in this example, the 404 page might include something like this:
A quick google search shows that smart 404 pages like this are actually a feature of Swiftype: Building a smart 404 page with Swiftype. 🐶🥫
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