Turning Broken URLs Into Search Terms?

You can try a plugin to do this:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/

Reads the page URL and tries to find a page/post that it might match and redirect to it.

Found out about this plugin from: http://www.aebeta.com/web-hosting/seo/7-seo-friendly-404-plugin-for-wordpress.html

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