Google killer-robots.txt

How is that an Easte...OOOH now I get it! +1

Try just clicking (or hovering over) "I'm Feeling Lucky" without typing a search, and the button changes to something random.

I enjoy their http://www.google.com/humans.txt

I don't think this is a coincidence, exactly. There was a protester shouting over the recent I/O keynote that Google is "a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people" in reference to Boston Dynamics. Folks who think that the accusation is overblown have been joking about Google's "killer robot" program, so this easter egg is likely Google poking fun at the allegation.

Well, technically this one is protecting killer robots, isn't it?

This is a joke: the robots.txt is a file on websites used to give instructions about their site to web crawlers.

Disallow: tells the robot that it should not visit those particular pages on a site. Or in this case, terminate those individuals.

This is probably a joke with a reference to Terminator, where T1000 and T800 are "killer" robots. So if those robots obey web standards, they should not kill Larry Page or Sergey Brin when they destroy Google.

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No, it's deadly serious.