What is the difference between soft 404 and 404 errors?

[Karenajha]

Hello Friends ...

What is the difference between soft 404 and 404 errors? How will you find and remove these errors?

[Fli]

Google: 404 error

Difference between 404 Errors - there can be default 404 returned by your webserver and there can be 404 custom made page you or yours cript programmer/designer created to replace system, default errors.

What 404 means? Your webpage is linking to a page that no longer exist or never existed. Contact your webmaster to fix it.

[josephinek]

404 error is if the page is removed or can not be found .

[vikas Industries]

A 404 error means that the requested page cannot be found. A 404 error code will cause the search engine to drop the page from its index.