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Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)
- gkoberger 13y agoWhat makes you think it's SEO related? I don't think any search index would do anything with HTML comments.
- renownedmedia 13y agoI think he was joking :p
- 3825 13y agoOr that they made their website interesting enough for us to and link back to the website, talk about it here, and possibly increase traffic ;)
- trevin 13y agoWhile 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.
- akharris 13y agoYeah...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 13y ago> PG wins for programming (duh). ...why?
- sharkweek 13y agoBrilliant -- 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 13y agoHah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?
- hcmeier 13y ago> OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs? https://soundcloud.com https://soundcloud.com
- jdorfman 13y agoMaxCDN does, inspired by SoundCloud.
- tommytsunami 13y agoClick view source, there's a url too.... http://oak.is/ http://oak.is/
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- throwaway125 13y agoI 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 13y agoYou 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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- simonster 13y agoI'm pretty sure John McCarthy was the creator of Lisp, not pg...
- akharris 13y agoWhoops - good point. Fixing now. I'll take the blame on that one. Meant to write ARC.
- carlsednaoui 13y agoI've done the same thing on one of my sites, it shows my gravatar image: view-source:http://permutationer.com/ http://permutationer.com/
- andygcook 13y agoDoes anyone know who the person in the homepage source code is? view-source:http://www.tutorspree.com/ http://www.tutorspree.com/
- carlsednaoui 13y agoChuck Norris?
- kn0thing 13y agoI'm hoping it's Freddie Mercury.
- andygcook 13y agoI'm thinking it's Al Pacino in Scar Face. Freddie Mercury just as solid a bet though.
- akharris 13y agohint: frequent hn commenter
- _sentient 13y agoLooks like Matt Cutts.
- cdrxndr 13y agoLooks like Jeff Bridges to me ...
- misiti3780 13y agoThat is really cool - but who the hell found this, and how?
- ceedan 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/robots.txt http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt # robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.
- flixic 13y agoThese are lyrics from this song, "The Humans are Dead" by Flight of the Conchords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64
- stellar678 13y agoRef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM
- clarkdale 13y agohttp://www.google.com/humans.txt http://www.google.com/humans.txt
- aghast 13y ago[humongous ascii art deleted to preserve page formatting]
- leeoniya 13y agoit adds 11.5k to the page (20% overhead) for an easter egg seems a bit excessive. it would be 10x smaller and more interesting to embed a js1k game or demo in the source.
- mischanix 13y agogzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%
- leeoniya 13y agoi dont believe gzip typically applies to html, only to loaded text-based resources, js/css. i could be wrong. either way that page's html does not come in compressed.
- solutionyogi 13y agogzip definitely applies to html in addition to js/css.
- scott_karana 13y agoGzip applies to whatever it's configured to apply to, and text\html is likely the most common mimetype gzipped. tutorspree does indeed load with gzip: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.1.19 Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:19:05 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Vary: Cookie Content-Encoding: gzip
- leeoniya 13y agoi'm not sure where you're getting those headers from, this is what i'm seeing: Connection Keep-Alive Content-Length 59127 Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8 Date Fri, 10 May 2013 21:24:38 GMT Server nginx/1.1.19 Set-Cookie .... Vary Cookie EDIT: i ran it through IE and got these headers too. Then ran it through some other online header-check sites and got your headers in one instance. the majority of my tests resulted in these: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/check-server-headers/?go=1&tool=38&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tutorspree.com%2Fbrowse%2Fnew-york-ny-tutors%2Fcomputer-programming&imageverify=JG84X&timehsh=4869395a5754453d&toolsubmit=Check+URL+Header http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/check-server-headers/?go=1&...
- platz 13y agoAre there any sites that publish the majority of it's content (or alternate) in html comments (view-source), rather than in visible markup?
- oakaz 13y agoI don't see anything interesting.
- shellerik 13y agoYou may need to maximize your browser to see the effect while viewing the page source.
- tokenadult 13y agoThank you. I have a two-screen configuration, and usually use the smaller screen for Web browsing, and the larger screen for writing. When I dragged the view source tab over to my larger screen, I saw immediately what the big deal was. Cool.
- oakaz 13y agoI only see the ascii picture of Paul Graham and his profile text.
- fs111 13y agohttp://www.last.fm/robots.txt http://www.last.fm/robots.txt Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self
- cjreyes 13y agointeresting. I can see more details when scrolling
- jiggy2011 13y agoHe only wears shorts? Is there any truth in this?
- xbryanx 13y agoMy 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.html http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/lineup/lineup....
- fryed7 13y agoBest source code ASCII I've seen is from Rishi here: http://explicitly.me/robots.txt http://explicitly.me/robots.txt