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Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?
by sarahallen 13y ago
Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?
- nostrademons 13y agoThis is Google participating in a joke that made its way around the Internet a few years ago: http://humanstxt.org/ 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.
- shliachtx 13y agoSee: http://www.github.com/humans.txt http://www.github.com/humans.txt
- jsdalton 13y agoI'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.
- mmahemoff 13y agoHumansTXT 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220