Bo (the infamous Obama Dog): the first days online!

By Charles-Henry Ruyant

Bo is the newest furriest member of the Obama family. The new pup is a black and white Portuguese Water Dog. He may be only 6 months old but already has a huge online presence!

The number of online searches over the last few days for ‘Bo Obama’ has exploded. Google Trends show that in a few days the number of searches and the number of pages relevant to the subject will continue to increase considerably.

Bo Google Trends

There is a Wikipedia entry where we can find all the information about him.

Wikipedia Bo

The White House has also set up a doggy-blog for the best friend of Sasha,

Bo Blog White House

as well as a video page on Vimeo where we can watch the first family playing with dog in the White House.

It is the first time that the American government has started an online campaign for an animal. The weird part of it is that based on Google information and the ranking of the news (from Yahoo US) people really care about this little dog.

Strange times people…one day, dogs will have Facebook and Twitter