Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

fs111 · 13 years ago

http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

  Disallow: /harming/humans
  Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
  Disallow: /harm/to/self

buf · 13 years ago

Virtues last reward is a great game. I hope that the robots of our future will follow this protocol

jonmarkgo · 13 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

sharkweek · 13 years ago

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs

One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.

kn0thing · 13 years ago

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

andygcook · 13 years ago

Even the President is in on it:

view-source:http://www.barackobama.com/

edwinnathaniel · 13 years ago

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/DOMContentLoaded/

Message on console:

"Do you come here often? If so, we'd love to talk about opportunities on the IE team: http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/internet-explorer/340041... "

davefp · 13 years ago

http://shopify.com

Read the top comment, then scroll waaay down to the bottom.

Full disclosure: I work for Shopify

infinita740 · 13 years ago

The tumblr website has the logo in comment, http://www.tumblr.com/ this was on HN a long time ago, someone complained about bandwidth and power wasted for only a few users who noticed it

hcmeier · 13 years ago

> OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

https://soundcloud.com

tommytsunami · 13 years ago

Click view source, there's a url too....

http://oak.is/

revelation · 13 years ago

Not exactly a source-code easter egg, but MySpace sends a random X-PoweredBy header with each request. A selection:

X-PoweredBy: Nerd Rage X-PoweredBy: The fire of 1,000 SUNS! X-PoweredBy: Interns

Of course it also runs on IIS, and this is MySpace we are talking about, so the geek cred is questionable here.

jdorfman · 13 years ago

MaxCDN does, inspired by SoundCloud.

mmaia · 13 years ago

Some companies do that with http headers (e.g. Zappos, SEOmoz, GigaOM)

timdorr · 13 years ago

Reddit:

    $ curl -v www.reddit.com
    > GET / HTTP/1.1
    > User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
    > Host: www.reddit.com
    > Accept: */*
    > 
    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    < Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --

crisnoble · 13 years ago

Same thing on soundcloud.

simonster · 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure John McCarthy was the creator of Lisp, not pg...

akharris · 13 years ago

Whoops - good point. Fixing now. I'll take the blame on that one. Meant to write ARC.

akharris · 13 years ago

Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh).

We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).

saraid216 · 13 years ago

> PG wins for programming (duh).

...why?

gkoberger · 13 years ago

What makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.

trevin · 13 years ago

While the markup doesn't do anything for SEO, Easter eggs like this are often created to help generate links back to the particular page from sites like HN...which can boost SEO.

The original submission title was probably tongue-in-cheek, but I'd bet the creator of the page had SEO in mind. Getting a ton of pg lovers who probably also link programming to link to a programming page on the site would be killer for SEO.

This is similar to creating a unique 404 error page that can generate tons of backlinks.

renownedmedia · 13 years ago

I think he was joking :p

3825 · 13 years ago

Or that they made their website interesting enough for us to and link back to the website, talk about it here, and possibly increase traffic ;)

platz · 13 years ago

Are there any sites that publish the majority of it's content (or alternate) in html comments (view-source), rather than in visible markup?

xbryanx · 13 years ago

My favorite source code easter eggs are all the odd little tidbits scattered throughout the Space Jam movie website...still up:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/lineup/lineup....

throwaway125 · 13 years ago

I assume the giant comment is what we're supposed to see, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to have any impact on SEO at all. Seems more like a tribute than a SEO hack.

jnevill · 13 years ago

You obviously know nothing about SEO. Having a Giant face in a comment of your page increases clicks, on average, by 147%. Give or take.

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