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Hit the Road with Cars.gov

By Mike Krumboltz
Tue, June 23, 2009, 1:45 pm PDT

Since taking office in January, President Obama has been a very busy guy. When he's not dealing with the economy, issuing carefully worded statements on foreign elections, and helping to raise his two kids, he's running a slew of government websites.

OK, so the President probably isn't coding the sites, updating the HTML, and monitoring server load. But still, under his watch, the government has launched change.gov, recovery.gov, serve.gov, and now, cars.gov. Each site offers visitors a chance to see what the government is doing in straight-forward terms.

The newest site, Cars.gov, has caused some serious traffic in the Search box. Since launching, queries on the site redlined to a 234% gain. The site lays out the government's much-talked-about "Cash for Clunkers" program. It explains who qualifies, who doesn't, and what people can expect to get for their old jalopies (according to the site, usually between $3,500 and $4,500).

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