Google's Humans.txtgoogle.com 17 pointsakshayagarwal12 years ago12 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−unfunco12yI 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.−elwell12yIt'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.−guidopallemans12ywent down for me, here's it in google cache:https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...−deeths12yShouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how?−bichiliad12yhttp://humanstxt.org/−sarahallen12yIs this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?−nostrademons12yThis 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.−shliachtx12ySee: http://www.github.com/humans.txt−jsdalton12yI'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.−mmahemoff12yHumansTXT 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−Touche12yWhat an unhuman humans.txt.−arnley12yThen what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt :)
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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.
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.
went down for me, here's it in google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...
Shouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how?
http://humanstxt.org/
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
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.
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
What an unhuman humans.txt.
Then what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt :)