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Google's Humans.txt

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Re: Google's Humans.txt

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Post by nostrademons »

sarahallen wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Google's Humans.txt

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Post by shliachtx »

nostrademons wrote: post #3
sarahallen wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

Re: Google's Humans.txt

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Post by jsdalton »

nostrademons wrote: post #3
sarahallen wrote: post #2

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

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.

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.

Re: Google's Humans.txt

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Post by mmahemoff »

nostrademons wrote: post #3
sarahallen wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

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