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A comment on Google's Humans.txt.

Re:Google's Humans.txt by sarahallen on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:00PM (#7019511)
Is this a weird marketing ploys to get geeks to look at their job postings?
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Re:Google's Humans.txt by nostrademons on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:01PM (#7019518)
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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Re:Google's Humans.txt by shliachtx on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:04PM (#7019538)
See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt
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Re:Google's Humans.txt by jsdalton on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:16PM (#7019592)
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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Re:Google's Humans.txt by mmahemoff on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:19PM (#7019611)
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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