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Google's Humans.txt (google.com)
17 points by akshayagarwal 4539 days ago
6 comments
unfunco 4539 days ago
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.

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elwell 4539 days ago
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.
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guidopallemans 4539 days ago
went down for me, here's it in google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5FYB51...

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deeths 4539 days ago
Shouldn't the humans.txt mirror the robots.txt and give humans permission to use the website and explain how?
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bichiliad 4539 days ago
http://humanstxt.org/
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sarahallen 4539 days ago
Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?
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nostrademons 4539 days ago
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.

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shliachtx 4539 days ago
See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt
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jsdalton 4539 days ago
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.
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mmahemoff 4539 days ago
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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Touche 4539 days ago
What an unhuman humans.txt.
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arnley 4539 days ago
Then what do you think of this one: http://sonetin.com/humans.txt :)
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