White House

:"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" redirects here. For the musical, see 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical).

The Web site

The official White House website is http://www.whitehouse.gov/. It was established on October 17, 1994.

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October 17 - 1994

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This website used a very lengthy robots exclusion file to shield much of its contents from search engines (http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt). As of early June 2005, the list contains over 2,200 directories. A visitor may still use the official search tool to retrieve information. However, the searchable contents are controlled by the U.S. government.

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Robots exclusion file - Search engine - June 2005

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There are still many directories not covered by the robots exclusion file. For example, www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/ is a Google searchable directory, while www.whitehouse.gov/president/100days/iraq/ is not.

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According to Alexa.com, the site is approximately the 2,449th most popular destination on the Internet in terms of traffic. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=whitehouse.gov

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