zombies at google

[Stragomagus]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-100 ... icksArea.0

 

 

 

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[hide=]Google, whose servers constantly crawl the Web, doesn't have anything against spiders. But zombies, well, that's another matter.

 

 

 

Showing some timely techie humor, the search giant updated its robots.txt file for Halloween. For the uninitiated, search engines trying to index Web sites look for robots.txt files for instructions about whether they're permitted access to particular pages.

 

 

 

The Google robots.txt file on Friday begins with the following exclusion:

 

 

 

 

 

User-agent: zombies

 

Disallow: /brains

 

 

 

Most of the time when people do this sort of thing it's called an Easter egg. Is there such a thing as a Halloween egg?[/hide]

 

 

 

Seems google has some Halloween spirit.

[D. V. Devnull]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10079992-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

 

 

 

see url for the image containing the code

 

[hide=]Google, whose servers constantly crawl the Web, doesn't have anything against spiders. But zombies, well, that's another matter.

 

 

 

Showing some timely techie humor, the search giant updated its robots.txt file for Halloween. For the uninitiated, search engines trying to index Web sites look for robots.txt files for instructions about whether they're permitted access to particular pages.

 

 

 

The Google robots.txt file on Friday begins with the following exclusion:

 

 

 

 

 

User-agent: zombies

 

Disallow: /brains

 

 

 

Most of the time when people do this sort of thing it's called an Easter egg. Is there such a thing as a Halloween egg?[/hide]

 

 

 

Seems google has some Halloween spirit.

Agreed. (LOL! :lol: ...) Although, where did Google's brains go walking off to? Maybe I wouldn't want them catching up with me? :?

 

 

 

~D. V. "Freaky..." Devnull