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google.com/humans.txt

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Post by netgusto » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

google.com/humans.txt
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#2

Post by sluggg » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

what is the point of this?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

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Post by lukevers » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

sluggg wrote: post #2

what is the point of this?

It's just a thing that some people do.

http://humanstxt.org/

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

sluggg wrote: post #2

what is the point of this?

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

sluggg wrote: post #2

what is the point of this?

It's meant to be a counterpart to robots.txt - a plaintext file that indicates who worked on a site.

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Post by radicality » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

sluggg wrote: post #2

what is the point of this?

You usually put a robots.txt file for search engines. A search engine putting a humans.txt is funny.

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Post by quantum_nerd » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...

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Post by sp332 » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

sluggg wrote: post #2

what is the point of this?

It's like robots.txt but for humans. This Firefox add-on shows you if the site you're browsing has one and lets you read it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/humanstxt/

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Post by azinman2 » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

Cute

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