From: Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
Was: https://www.umms.med.umich.edu/it.jira/browse/OERDRUPAL-89
Related: https://www.umms.med.umich.edu/it.jira/browse/OERDRUPAL-49
For what it's worth though, I don't know about the complexity of making https://open.umich.edu/education/si/si519 search through https://open.umich.edu/education/si/si519/* and redirecting to the highest year that's published. Based on my previous experience in adapting mysql-php based content management systems, though, programmatically I think it would be fairly simple to implement some alternatives.
I agree that having the name of the course in the search field is an improvement. I don't think the text in the search field is very noticeable though. I see the Page Not Found message in large font and then the "Where Am I?" in bold. That's what stands out to me. By the time I've read that, I think I typed the URL wrong and my attention doesn't make it down to the search box.
Some thoughts: The course name (or whatever is after the final /, let's call that the "token" for the sake of generalization") should be more noticeable. This could be done through a larger font, decreasing the length of the paragraph, moving the search box higher. I think that the cleanest, simplest method may be to add text just under "Page Not Found" that says " Did you mean: [token with underlying link to http://open.umich.edu/search/apachesolr_search/token]. (This would be in the style of the "Did you mean: SI 529" near the top of this page https://open.umich.edu/search/apachesolr_search/si519).