Google killer-robots.txt

I don't think this is a coincidence, exactly. There was a protester shouting over the recent I/O keynote that Google is "a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people" in reference to Boston Dynamics. Folks who think that the accusation is overblown have been joking about Google's "killer robot" program, so this easter egg is likely Google poking fun at the allegation.

fixermark• 12 years ago

It's an odd allegation, given that robots built by Unit Handling Systems have killed more people than Boston Dynamics.

vskr• 12 years ago

What does killer-robots.txt mean. And what do /+LarryPage links point to? (His google plus profile?)

arcanus• 12 years ago

This is a joke: the robots.txt is a file on websites used to give instructions about their site to web crawlers.

Disallow: tells the robot that it should not visit those particular pages on a site. Or in this case, terminate those individuals.

idank• 12 years ago

This is probably a joke with a reference to Terminator, where T1000 and T800 are "killer" robots. So if those robots obey web standards, they should not kill Larry Page or Sergey Brin when they destroy Google.

thegeomaster• 12 years ago

What about Schmidt? He can fight T-1000 and T-800 by himself?

doragcoder• 12 years ago

Apparently Google is not the only one on the internet fighting against killer robots. I found this a few years back...

http://developer.appcelerator.com/robots.txt

pshinghal• 12 years ago

Well, technically this one is protecting killer robots, isn't it?

BuildTheRobots• 12 years ago

Webfusion's always amused me: http://mirrors.webfusion.com/robots.txt

onethumb• 12 years ago

I guess the other models (T-850, T-101, etc) are free to go after Larry & Sergey?

Great example of whitelists vs blacklists. :)

lblz12366• 12 years ago

啥意思？谁能用中文翻一下

Google killer-robots.txt

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