10 Responses to “Yahoo Censors Nobama Search”

1. Jack
   August 30th, 2008 @

   Seems that Yahoo has in fact removed the nobama site from its index. Unless there is some overwhelming reason for doing this, it definitely falls under the category of “not cool.” Luckily, Yahoo accounts for less and less search traffic by the day.

2. Amy
   August 31st, 2008 @

   Just a thought to put a damper on your conspiracy theory party.

   If you look at the page code for the NOBAMA site you’ll notice there are no keywords listed in their meta tags, which many search engines use as a way to get people to their page. So perhaps the site designer needs to address that issue (though looking at how g-d awful it looks… maybe they lack the skill).

3. Josh
   August 31st, 2008 @

   Who cares if anyone can find it? Have you read the illiterate and ill-reasoned screeds underlying this shmuck’s argument?

   http://www.nobama.com/members/index.php?option=com_idoblog&view=idoblog&Itemid=46

   “The reason Canadians come down to America to visit a doctor even if they have to pay for it is because we have the best medical care system in the world. You know Princess Diana could have been saved if the accident happened in America. The free French medical system is just not the same quality we have here in America. And, he wants us to bring our medical quality down to the European level.”

   Oh, lord.

   Some more brilliance:

   He talks about giving equal pay for equal work so that his daughters would make the same as your sons. We all know that its not possible to do this. Companies would just hire fewer women and it will be tougher for women to get jobs if its legislated. And, if he was so hip on this, he had his chance at putting a woman on the ticket, Hillary Clinton.

4. Amy
   August 31st, 2008 @

   I was too blinded by the ugliness of the site to actually read it, so thanks for quoting it. Oh, lord, is right.

5. Jack
   August 31st, 2008 @

   When you strip away his lofty rhetoric Obama is an old school socialist. If he is elected your taxes will go up and he will institute national healthcare.

   There are serious problems with national healthcare that any Canadian or European can tell you about. To ignore the clear flaws in state controlled healthcare systems is ridiculous. If we are going to make sure that every American has health insurance we should approach it in a much different way.

6. Jack
   August 31st, 2008 @

   They would improve their search ranking if this was their home page instead of a subpage http://www.nobama.com/members/

7. Amy
   September 1st, 2008 @

   It’s not national healthcare. Read the plan, then come back to us before you start reciting things you learned from Hannity & Limbaugh.

8. Eric Hazard
   September 2nd, 2008 @

   From BarackObama.com (the first search result when I type nobama into yahoo):

   “Obama’s Plan to Cover Uninsured Americans: Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans,”

   From page 2 of the full plan:

   “…Making health insurance universal, which will reduce spending on uncompensated care.”

   Anyway, the point of this post was not to debate the merits and ridiculous statements of one guy’s Web site. Rather it was to ask why Yahoo directs ALL nobama search inquires to Obama sites first. Here is a listing of the search results for a yahoo nobama inquiry:

   barackobama.com
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
   my.barackobama.com
   my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog
   obama.senate.gov
   http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/barack.obama.html

   A similar listing from the same search on Google:

   http://www.nobama.com
   shop.cafepress.com/nobama
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADZnsIkpdQ
   http://www.nobamanetwork.com
   nobamablog.wordpress.com/
   democrats-against-obama.org/

   Do you see the problem now?

9. Amy
   September 2nd, 2008 @

   He’s not requiring adults to get on the plan – which hardly makes it universal in the way that a socialist health system implies. His plan requires children be on the plan, yes, but not adults.

   And enough with the NOBAMA site already, haven’t we already determined it’s crap?

10. Eric Hazard
    September 2nd, 2008 @

    Yes, the nobama.com site is crap.

    That is not the issue. Rather, I am asking why yahoo filters ALL nobama inquires to an obama search.

    So enough of that, back to health care. I wouldn’t be such a stickler about the specifics if you hadn’t started in with the “read the plan” statement.

    So I go to barackobama.com again today. From the first quote at the top of the page, I get this:

    “My plan begins by covering every American. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is the amount of money you will spend on premiums. That will be less. If you are one of the 45 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, you will have it after this plan becomes law.”

    I think that last sentence bears repeating:

    If you are one of the 45 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, you will have it after this plan becomes law.

    I’m not so good with the HTML, otherwise I’d back it flash, and give it one of those borders with ants crawling around it.

    Then I click on the FAQ page (again from barackobama.com) and there’s this nugget:

    “Employers who do not offer meaningful coverage to their employees will have to contribute a percentage of their payroll to help offset the cost of providing coverage to all Americans.”

    So employers will be required to contribute money to cover all Americans. Not all children, not all seniors, ALL AMERICANS.

    Then it goes on and on and on….

    “Ensuring every American has health coverage, which will reduce spending
    on the “uncompensated” care of uninsured people who end up in
    emergency rooms and whose care is picked up by institutions and then
    passed through higher charges to insured individuals.”

    To the question of ” Q. Will I still have choice in health plans?” here’s the answer:

    “If you do not have insurance you can choose to enroll in the new public plan, which will offer benefits similar to what every federal employee and member of Congress gets. Or you can choose private plan options through the national health exchange.”

    Notice one of the choices is not, “you may choose to remain uninsured because you are young, healthy and free of disease and thus don’t see the point in spending extra money on a service you don’t need.”

    More quotes from the FAQ:

    “Third, for employers that already offer coverage to their employees, Obama’s plan will make it less costly for them to continue to do so, because every American will be covered.”

    How will every American be covered opposite a government mandate?

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