[everythingabili]

This really isn't crowing but we created a dynamic site that used HyperCard as a CGI and we did that in 1984. Not kidding. Mosaic'd up to the hilt.

Still, it's a good idea.

You can further this idea (especially when the slug returns nothing) by having this page also list "Best Bets" or what people most often come to your site for (regardless of any search query, perhaps, with their referrer, or on this day of the week etc)

And additionally, put the slug (bar the dashes) into a search box so it might be ammended (but tell them that you didn't find anything and they need to try something else).

[tomjakubowski]

Must have been later than 1984 or I'm misunderstanding - HyperCard was released in the late 80s, and NCSA Mosaic wasn't released until 1993.