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"no matches" Interfaces for Search: a Pick and a Pan

On your site, intranet or enterprise search engine, what happens if a search engine finds no match for the search terms?

Below the link are two different approaches, one slightly verbose and the other so terse as to be baffling. Look a them, look at yours, look at my page on good things to do with the no matches page, and see if there's something you can do better.

screenshots of good and bad interfaces
to deal with no matches for a search

Readers: if you have any good or bad examples, or "before" and "after" screenshots, link me to them, please! I'll post the best ones, by which I mean both good helpful interfaces and really awful ones.

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