Google's Humans.txt

http://google.com/humans.txt

by akshayagarwal • 13 years ago

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sarahallen• 13 years ago

Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?

nostrademons• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt

jsdalton• 13 years 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• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

What an unhuman humans.txt.

arnley• 13 years ago

Then what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt :)

deeths• 13 years ago

Shouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how?

bichiliad• 13 years ago

http://humanstxt.org/

unfunco• 13 years ago

I personally like the Disqus humans.txt file: http://disqus.com/humans.txt

Edit: Also, I'm just getting a 404 on the linked Google humans.txt file.

elwell• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

went down for me, here's it in google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...

Google's Humans.txt

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