Glossary · Indexing and discovery

Soft 404

A page that answers HTTP 200 while telling a human the content is missing. The status line and the content disagree, and the crawler believes the status line until something else corrects it.

Indexing and discovery

Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.

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