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When the Terminators come, only Google’s co-founders will be safe

04
Jul
2014

If our world should ever be overrun by Terminators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin may end up surviving humanitys annihilation. The killing machines havent yet arrived, but Google is already taking precautions. Its uploaded a killer-robots.txt file to its servers that instructs T-800 and T-1000 Terminators to spare the companys co-founders — or disallow their deaths, to be more specific. The easter eggs appearance on Googles website coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Robots.txt file, a tool created in 1994 that instructs search engines and other automated bots to avoid crawling certain pages or directories of a website.

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