You can't get a funnier error message than this:
Dear valued user,
You have reached the error page for the error page...
You win!!
Sometimes even the error pages can't be displayed and you need to come up with a plan B. Gmail's meta-error page is simple, yet effective: Google can't always win.
This reminds me of a similar error message from Google Reader: "Oops! That wasn't supposed to happen".
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The first screenshot is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial by Viofiddler. The second one is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution by Ashley Dryden. }
Labels: Gmail
said on September 25, 2008 3:51 PM PDT:
Error messages? From Google?!
Well hey, it happens.
Thanks for the laugh!
I like it and that's why still in BETA.
said on September 25, 2008 6:59 PM PDT:
Really nice
said on September 25, 2008 7:56 PM PDT:
I still like the error page in germany for www.gmail.com that says (translated from German):
Dear User,
in Germany our email service is called Google Mail, not gmail.
You can get your emails directly by typing in http://mail.google.com.
Your Google Team.
Haha... that's funny though. Google sometimes make things light by adding fun like this... that's good.
said on September 25, 2008 10:27 PM PDT:
I just love the youtube internal server error.
"A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation"
said on September 25, 2008 11:49 PM PDT:
This is why we love Google.
said on September 26, 2008 12:44 AM PDT:
Google accidentally the error page.
said on September 26, 2008 1:22 AM PDT:
Regarding "error page in germany", thats because gmail.de is a completely other company, and to not infringe on the trademark (even google has to obey that) the have to write like that.
The second one, well, every reasonable programmer uses this error message from time to time. They aren't supposed to survive to production system though, I guess.
The first one is good.
said on September 26, 2008 5:18 AM PDT:
I've met with fallowing on while using orkut:
Bad Google, no doughnut for You today!
I got an error from Google Chrome a couple days ago. I don't have a screenshot but it was something like "Whoa! Chrome crashed!" As though they were shocked that it happened.
Sheldon said on September 26, 2008 8:26 AM PDT:
Nice.
steeleweed said on September 27, 2008 7:59 AM PDT:
In the 1960s, IBM distributed a 'beta' Fortran compiler. Fortan numbered the lines and the error listing was at the bottom i.e.; "Syntax error in line 12" or "Undefined variable in line 23". One version listed all the errors, then stated "Note: there is an error in the error message numbering."
Hunnter said on September 27, 2008 9:17 AM PDT:
Google always has some of the best error messages.
Its, as Anon said, why we love Google.
What happens if there's an error on the error pages error page?? I think you can see where i'm going with this... :o)
Nice to see that Google can still make fun of itself - i'd like to slip some of these 'easter eggs' into our web app but i'm not sure if the company would approve of it (although in a pre-release build we made all of our legal links go to a rick-roll... good times)
http://www.samalamadingdong.com
This reminds me of a Placeware (now Microsoft Live Meeting) error message from years ago. If you attempted to schedule a meeting with attendees: 1 you got a pop up message that stated (it's been so long I'm probably paraphrasing): Please select at least 2 attendees because meetings with only 1 person are not very fun.
said on September 30, 2008 5:35 PM PDT:
How someone could license a SCREENSHOT? :P
Is SCREENSHOT a form of art? Is it a masterpiece? Is it someone's unique work? That "intelectual property" stuff is starting to reach a crap point...
-_-'
said on September 30, 2008 10:15 PM PDT:
When you uninstall Google Chrome, the confirmation dialog box has a "Was it something we said?" tagged on at the end :)
nadie007 said on October 2, 2008 1:01 PM PDT:
jejeje nice shot!
Itamar said on October 3, 2008 2:01 PM PDT:
I love this. It is great. These laughs are great.
Zaru said on October 30, 2008 11:20 PM PDT:
hehe...nice..:)
