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According to Hitwise UK, the official White House website was one of the fastest moving sites of last week ending the 24th January. UK visits increased by 525% over a week. The spike in interest is not surprising following President Obama’s inauguration on the 20th January. ‘barack obama’ was the 2nd fastest moving search of last week and searches for ‘obama’ were 6th. Both searches increased over 7 times since the previous week. Wikipedia was the website receiving the most traffic from ‘barack obama’ searches and the official Barack Obama website was second.

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