{"id":913,"date":"2009-01-22T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-01-22T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:24:32","slug":"obama-opens-up-whitehousegov-to-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/01\/22\/obama-opens-up-whitehousegov-to-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama opens up WhiteHouse.gov to search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC reports<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The new media team also created a Whitehouse.gov blog that will act as an informal record of events, speeches and decisions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Huzzah!<\/p>\n\n\t

\n\tTags: Creative Commons<\/a>, Obama<\/a>, search<\/a>, whitehouse<\/a>
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