# Why doesn't 404 page search locally instead of google?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-404-page-search-locally-instead-of-google/62547 "2017-05-11T20:29:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-404-page-search-locally-instead-of-google/62547/3 "2017-05-11T20:38:39Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Because Google is quite a bit better in the “type random words into search, some of them misspelled or missing entirely, and get a decent search result” department.

That much is true. When you’ve got a bunch of imported data, though, being able to through those words to the local search is gold. I think that to solve my “we want redirects for the old slugs, but don’t have the slugs” problem will be to redirect all topics to a local search for the slug terms.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> (We do suppress this part of the page for private sites, obviously, as google can’t see into private sites. @techapj added that feature a while back.)

That’s cool. Does “login required” == “private”? I’m getting the google search on this private site.

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