diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index e7361e7e..be9a7ebe 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@ Changelog
 5.2.5 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
-- Nothing changed yet.
+- plone.app.redirector.FourOhFourView.search_for_similar patch to enable conditionally
+  the search for similar
+  [folix-01]
 
 
 5.2.4 (2023-09-26)
 ------------------
 
 - Fix the issue in the @translation GET endpoint: If this
-  endpoint is invoked, possibly by a bot, and plone.app.multilingual 
-  is not installed, the call will result in an empty search query 
+  endpoint is invoked, possibly by a bot, and plone.app.multilingual
+  is not installed, the call will result in an empty search query
   on the catalog.
   [lucabel]
 
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b2046a45..236a3978 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ For details see the `pull-request <https://github.com/RedTurtle/redturtle.volto/
 
 This patch is not enabled by default. You need to set an environment variable to `true`: *PROXY_BEARER_AUTH*.
 
+Conditionally seach for similar if nonexistent site path passed
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+plone.app.redirector.FourOhFourView.search_for_similar method patched to return an empty list if
+the `REDTURTLE_VOLTO_ENABLE_SEARCH_FOR_SIMILAR` environment variable is set.
+
 New Criteria
 ============
 
diff --git a/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.py b/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.py
index e17dc6c8..532680e8 100644
--- a/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.py
+++ b/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from zope.globalrequest import getRequest
 
 import datetime
+import os
 
 
 def occurrences(self, range_start=None, range_end=None):
@@ -144,3 +145,17 @@ def plone_restapi_pam_translations_get(self, expand=False):
     if not IPloneAppMultilingualInstalled.providedBy(self.request):
         return {"translations": {"@id": f"{self.context.absolute_url()}/@translations"}}
     return self._old___call__(expand=expand)
+
+
+def search_for_similar(*args, **kwargs):
+    """plone.app.redirector.browser.FourOhFourView.search_for_similar patch"""
+
+    original_obj = args and args[0] or None
+
+    if (
+        os.environ.get("REDTURTLE_VOLTO_ENABLE_SEARCH_FOR_SIMILAR", default=None)
+        and original_obj
+    ):
+        return original_obj._old_search_for_similar()
+
+    return []
diff --git a/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.zcml b/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.zcml
index 186c1761..e8e59ffb 100644
--- a/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.zcml
+++ b/src/redturtle/volto/monkey.zcml
@@ -49,5 +49,12 @@
       description="Fix long request in case pam is not installed"
       preserveOriginal="True"
       />
+  <monkey:patch
+      original="search_for_similar"
+      replacement=".monkey.search_for_similar"
+      class="plone.app.redirector.browser.FourOhFourView"
+      description="Cancel the seach_for_similiar call when usin volto frontend"
+      preserveOriginal="True"
+      />
 
 </configure>