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web.archive.org - 1/22/2009
WhiteHouse.Gov: 'Robots' Text file
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former whitehouse.gov robots.txt
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
— whitehouse.gov — The first post on WhiteHouse.gov. (more) Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov

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boingboing.net - 1/21/2009
Obama's whitehouse.gov nukes 2400-line Bush robots.txt file
— boingboing.net — Yesterday, the robots.txt file for whitehouse.gov had ca. 2400 lines worth of files and directories that search... engines were not allowed to index. Today, the file is two lines long: "User-agent: *" and "Disallow: /includes/" User-agent: * Disallow: ... (more) Obama's whitehouse.gov nukes 2400-line Bush robots.txt ...

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content.usatoday.com - 1/21/2009
On the new whitehouse.gov: 'Pool' reports to be public? - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency
— content.usatoday.com — The redesigned whitehouse.gov , which went live at 12:01 p.m. ET yesterday just as President Obama officially... took office, isn't fully operational just yet. But a quick tour around its features indicates it will have some interesting features, along ... (more) On the new whitehouse.gov: 'Pool' reports to be public? ...

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techPresident:  Code Warriors Debate Whitehouse.gov Robot Commands

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Code Warriors Debate Whitehouse.gov Robot Commands
techPresident — ... . This file serves as a notice to search robots informing them of what files they should or shouldn't survey. Upon seeing the new version of the file, some noticed that it only had two lines of code excluding robot searches vs. the former whitehouse.gov robots.txt that had nearly 2400 lines of exclude lines by the end of the Bush administration, sparking excitement and controversy over what the change means in terms of government transparency. ...

Sarah Granger: Code Warriors Debate Whitehouse.gov Robot Commands
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... . This file serves as a notice to search robots informing them of what files they should or shouldn't survey. Upon seeing the new version of the file, some noticed that it only had two lines of code excluding robot searches vs. the former whitehouse.gov robots.txt that had nearly 2400 lines of exclude lines by the end of the Bush administration, sparking excitement and controversy over what the change means in terms of government transparency. ...

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