Some Google in the White House
May 13, 2009
A month ago, I received a call from a journalist asking about the Obama White House’s uses of Google. I did not answer the question because big time journalists ask me question, and I am not a public library reference desk worker any more.
One insight can be found here. Google said:
App Engine supports White House town hall meeting
In late March, the White House hosted an online town hall meeting, soliciting questions from concerned citizens directly through its website. To manage the large stream of questions and votes, the White House used Google Moderator, which runs on App Engine. At its peak, the application received 700 hits per second, and across the 48-hour voting window, accepted over 104,000 questions and 3,600,000 votes. Despite this traffic, App Engine continued to scale and none of the other 50,000 hosted applications were impacted. For more on this project, including a graph of the traffic and more details on how App Engine was able to cope with the load, see the Google Code blog.
How Googley is the Obama White House? Pretty Googley I hear.
Ste3phen Arnold, May 13, 2009
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Re: Some Google Inc. in the White House
Another aspect is Google Inc NetPAC lobbying spending in Washington which doubled from 2007 to 2008 to nearly $2.85M. See the main figures here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Google+Inc&year=2008
Besides the White House, these U.S. government agencies are reported to have recruited or use Google services: NSA, CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies and also the Coast Guard, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
source: Jonathan Richards dated March 31, 2009
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3652494.ece