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

<a href="http://www.last.fm/robots.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.last.fm/robots.txt</a><p><pre><code> Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self</code></pre>

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs<p>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.

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

Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh).<p>We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).

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

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

My favorite source code easter eggs are all the odd little tidbits scattered throughout the Space Jam movie website...still up:<p><a href="http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/lineup/lineup.html" rel="nofollow">http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/lineup/lineup....</a>

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.

That is really cool - but who the hell found this, and how?

Does anyone know who the person in the homepage source code is?<p>view-source:<a href="http://www.tutorspree.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tutorspree.com/</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt</a><p># robots.txt file for YouTube<p># Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after<p># the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

it 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.

I've done the same thing on one of my sites, it shows my gravatar image: view-source:<a href="http://permutationer.com/" rel="nofollow">http://permutationer.com/</a>

Best source code ASCII I've seen is from Rishi here: <a href="http://explicitly.me/robots.txt" rel="nofollow">http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</a>

I don't see anything interesting.

interesting. I can see more details when scrolling

He only wears shorts? Is there any truth in this?