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Google Founders Safe from Terminator Strike

July 8, 2014 by Paul Spoerry 7 Comments

The 20th anniversary of robots.txt which, for those who have no need to use one, is a way of telling a search engine not to index all or part of a site. More formally known as The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or for most geeks just the: robots.txt protocol. To celebrate it looks like Google played a snarky joke and included the following directives in there's so that should SkyNet come alive they'll be safe:
————————————————
User-Agent: T-1000
User-Agent: T-800
Disallow: /+LarryPage
Disallow: /+SergeyBrin
————————————————

You can see yourself by slapping http://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt into your browser (note their actual one is just http://www.google.com/robots.txt). What's that's basically doing is telling robots T-1000 and T-800 they can't touch +Larry Page or +Sergey Brin. HA! 

I've seen some comments that leaves the door open for the T-600, T-888, and the T-1000000 (I'd never heard of this, apparently it's a Universal Studios attraction). 

For more info check: 
http://www.robotstxt.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156449?hl=en

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Andrew Jones-McGuire says

    July 8, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Still don't understand why they aren't using "User-Agent: *" for future proofing, after all only killer robots are reading this file…..

  2. Matthew Shuey says

    July 8, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    Wow it's been 20 years.

  3. Paul Spoerry says

    July 8, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    HA! +Andrew Jones-McGuire.
    and yeah… kinda crazy right +Matthew Shuey?

  4. Matthew Shuey says

    July 8, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    +Paul Spoerry I didn't start using robots files until 2007.I'm such a N00b

  5. Paul Spoerry says

    July 8, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Well… unless you have a reason to specifically exclude something you might not have needed one prior!

  6. Thomas Wrobel says

    July 8, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    I dunno, the SCC hinted at the end the T1000s were turning to our side.  In trying to be too safe, they might lose their only significant ally.

  7. Paul Spoerry says

    July 9, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    DOH!

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