Is this 404 page indexed?

[bfinternet]

I have a URL that when searched for shows up in the Google index as the first result but does not have any title or description attached to it. When you click on the link it goes to a 404 page.

Is it simply that Google is removing it from the index and is in some sort of transitional phase or could there be another reason.

[Entrusteddev]

If Google was removing the page from its index, you would have not SERP for the page.

Its more likely a issue with the site structure, urls, redirects or similar...Can you give us the url in question so we can look at it further?

[IM_Learner]

Please provide the URL. As far as no title and description is concerned, check this out http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2b626fae15f7a1cb&hl=en

[bfinternet]

Although I would rather not disclose the exact URL I have included some screenshots. Hopefully these will show you what I mean.

index.jpg http-headers.png

[KeriMorgret]

You do often see that if the engine knows about the URL but isn't able to crawl the page. It should eventually drop out. If you have control of the site you can also go into GWT and request removal of that URL from the index, since it's already returning a 404.