This patch for Search 404 5.x-1.1 allows to automatically figure out whether the URL requested is a link to the old site which has been replaced by Drupal based site while the old site has been moved under some other domain name. If it is, a link to the old site is offered (so that the content is not lost).

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zyxware commented
Assigned: Unassigned » zyxware
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Since this is a feature that is not going to be used by the majority of search404 users I am not going to include this patch in the module. But this looks like a patch that might be useful for sites migrating to drupal. You might also want to take a look at modifying .htaccess to do the same thing that you are doing. Also you can safely issue a 301 redirect to ask the search engines to take out the urls from their indices.