Comment on Google's Humans.txtComments−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
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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