Secrets of the White House EXPOSED - Using Google

[ck4829]

White House Files that are "not for public release"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22not+for+public+release%22+site:whitehouse.gov&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

PDF files of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=ext%3Apdf+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Text files of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=inurl%3Atxt+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Excel files of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=ext%3Axls+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Draft files of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=draft+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Powerpoint documents of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=ext%3Appt+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Rich Text Format Documents of the White House
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=ext%3Artf+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

White House's plans for 2007
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=2007+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

White House's plans for 2008
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=2008+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

Word files of the White House that have been produced in the last year
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ext%3Adoc+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=y&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=whitehouse.gov&as_rights=&safe=off

Robots text file
http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

So, you might be wondering how I did this. No espionage or anything illegal required, you just have to know how to use Google.

BTW, I haven't been able to read all of the documents, if you come across anything particularly interesting, be sure to share it with the rest of DU.

[nebenaube]

1. yes... please do

this paranoid sucker ain't gonna click one of those links....

[ck4829]

3. It's pretty boring actually

The robots text file is funny though, it disallows just about EVERYTHING from being put on a search engine.

[nebenaube]

7. still... it may be a honeypot n/t

[nolies32fouettes]

6. Me either!

[lonestarnot]

2. cool. bookmarking.

[bonito]

4. Kick n/t

[ck4829]

5. Oh Snap! Discovered documents from David Safavian!

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=safavian+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&btnG=Search

[blogslut]

8. kicked. recommended

and bookmarked!

PS: Can anyone explain to me why the Whitehouse is on a commercial server - sharing space with sites like victoriassecret.com, tvland.com, the site for the lemony snickets movie, pittsburgh television, playboyarcade.com, lexus.com, ifilm.com, glennbeck.com and 556 other sites?

[Pawel K]

9. they are probably sharing the same datacenter, not server

this is normal as you want big sites to be hosted in big, reputable, datacenters.

[blogslut]

10. Oh, I realize that Akamai

...is a major solution provider. Just the same, I always found it curious that the Senate has it's own server/datacenter. The House has it's own server/datacenter. The Library of Congress has it's own server/datacenter. The DOJ has it's own server. But the White House has it's stuff over @ Akamai.

I dunno. I guess because the WH gets more traffic, like you said.

[gogo69]

12. akamai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai

[onenote]

11. why are these referred to as "secrets"?

I don't see anything that you couldn't find by simply doing a search on whitehouse.gov