[–] sarahallen 12y ago ↗ Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings? [–] nostrademons 12y ago ↗ This is Google participating in a joke that made its way around the Internet a few years ago:http://humanstxt.org/The joke is itself a play on the "robots.txt" protocol that sites use to indicate whether they may be crawled by search engines. [–] shliachtx 12y ago ↗ See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt [–] jsdalton 12y ago ↗ I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work. [–] mmahemoff 12y ago ↗ HumansTXT is not just a joke though. It's like movie credits for programmers.Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220
[–] nostrademons 12y ago ↗ This is Google participating in a joke that made its way around the Internet a few years ago:http://humanstxt.org/The joke is itself a play on the "robots.txt" protocol that sites use to indicate whether they may be crawled by search engines. [–] shliachtx 12y ago ↗ See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt [–] jsdalton 12y ago ↗ I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work. [–] mmahemoff 12y ago ↗ HumansTXT is not just a joke though. It's like movie credits for programmers.Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220
[–] jsdalton 12y ago ↗ I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work.
[–] mmahemoff 12y ago ↗ HumansTXT is not just a joke though. It's like movie credits for programmers.Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220
[–] Touche 12y ago ↗ What an unhuman humans.txt. [–] arnley 12y ago ↗ Then what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt :)
[–] deeths 12y ago ↗ Shouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how? [–] bichiliad 12y ago ↗ http://humanstxt.org/
[–] unfunco 12y ago ↗ I personally like the Disqus humans.txt file: http://disqus.com/humans.txtEdit: Also, I'm just getting a 404 on the linked Google humans.txt file.
[–] elwell 12y ago ↗ It's not really practical to have a proper list of credits for a company like Google. I feel some people are going overboard with Google-bashing.
[–] guidopallemans 12y ago ↗ went down for me, here's it in google cache:https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...
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The joke is itself a play on the "robots.txt" protocol that sites use to indicate whether they may be crawled by search engines.
Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220
Edit: Also, I'm just getting a 404 on the linked Google humans.txt file.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...