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Why the sudden interest in “feather braids”?

Feather, braids, and beads
Feather, braids, and beads

Anyone know why there’s been a sudden spike in searches for “feather braids”? I’ve seen a big spike in views on a photograph I took at the UMM Powwow back in 2007 (see the plot below).

Views on Feathers, braids, and beads
Views on Feathers, braids, and beads

When I drill down into the search terms, it’s clear that lots of people are searching for “feather braids”, “how to do feather braids” and the like. When I search for “feather braids” on Google, my photo on Flickr is the fourth link, which is presumably why there have been so many hits all of a sudden. I can’t find anything that would explain this flurry of searches, however. Anyone out there in the Hive Mind know what’s driving this?

Tags: feather braids, Flickr, hive mind, photograph, photos, powwow, search, spike, UMM, University of Minnesota Morris

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Obama opens up WhiteHouse.gov to search engines

Obama is opening up WhiteHouse.gov to search engines, where the Bush administration has large chunks of it blocked off.

The BBC reports that while the Bush administration blocked huge chunks of WhiteHouse.gov from being indexed by search engines, the Obama administration has opened it up almost entirely.

The robots.txt file the Bush administration set up for Whitehouse.gov ran to almost 2377 lines and thereby stopped search engines logging a lot of the data found on the site.

On the first day of the Barack administration the robots.txt file shrunk to two lines allowing, for the moment, search sites to index everything it contains.

The new media team also created a Whitehouse.gov blog that will act as an informal record of events, speeches and decisions.

Combine this with the cool use of Creative Commons licensing on WhiteHouse.gov, plans to close Guantanamo, and smart, competent non-creepy people in is cabinet, and things are already a ton better.

I realize this hasn’t gotten us out of Iraq or created a million new jobs yet, but these are great steps at the beginning of a long journey.

Huzzah!

Tags: Creative Commons, Obama, search, whitehouse

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