Obama Administration Purchases Google ‘ObamaCare’ Search Results

The Blaze ^ | December 17 , 2010 | Meredith Jessup

[opentalk]

Type in a search of “ObamaCare” into Google — the world’s most popular search engine — and the results may surprise you. According to Politico’s Ben Smith, the Obama administration has purchased top billing to divert internet surfers away from antagonist websites to a new “sponsored link” — the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) healthcare.gov:

“We are using a bunch of search term[s] to help point people to HealthCare.gov. Part of our online efforts to help get accurate information to people about the new law (i.e. also use Facebook, Twitter, blogs and webcasts),” an HHS official confirmed by e-mail.

The ad buy represents a kind of recognition that the Administration has, to a degree, lost a battle over defining its terms, and that “ObamaCare” — coined and used largely by detractors of the plan — is in wide circulation. A search for the term on Google yields 2.5 million results.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I usually skip any .gov sites when I surf. I’m looking for facts not BS.

[Zeppo]

The ‘Ministry of Truth’ strikes back...

[CajunConservative]

bing is better. :)

[Minus_The_Bear]

Click the living crap out of it & waste their $

[Frank_2001]

Just search “Obamacare” “marxism” “socialism”;)

[nascarnation]

Who is the “they” in “their” ??

[mc5cents]

Funds supplied by the Ministry of Truth.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IN SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Remember:

[tanknetter]

Just searched ObamaCare on Google.

#1 result: www.healthcare.gov/

#2 result: DemandObamacareRepeal.com

Wiki is #4 on the list, followed on the first results page by sites with things like the following:

“What the Liberal Media Aren’t Telling You About Obama’s Healthcare Plans.”

“ObamaCare Watch”

“Examiner Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought ...”

“20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms”

And even “The Fatal Flaw of Obamacare” at www.time.com

The thing that really p*sses me off is how the Obama Administration flushed away taxpayer money on doing something that is so obviously an “epic fail”. As a taxpayer, if the President is going to try to do something like that, I’d expect that it would actually WORK.

[Minus_The_Bear]

OFA/Obama... Granted, the fund probably came from TARP or who knows where orginially.

BUT

If millions of people click the ads will go away because they will become too expensive. Rush Limbaugh did the same thing during the Obamacare debate. He told everybody to go click Obama's google ad. It spends the money Obama/The Whitehouse has set aside for marketing.

[AGreatPer]

"Who is the “they” in “their” ??"

Same person as "the White House Says".

[Minus_The_Bear]

David Ploufe. OFA.

[nascarnation]

I don’t read it that way at all.
It says HHS is paying the Google bill.
That’s you and me.

[mc5cents]

“The White House Says”. I have often wondered about that myself. I didn’t know that inanimate objects could speak, did you?

[TigersEye]

Use “CommieCare” “KommieKare” or “0-KommieKare” to get better results.

[TigersEye]

Isn’t it a felony to use treasury revenue for partisan propagandizing? It should be.

[Minus_The_Bear]

OFA and the committee to reelect Obama is involved in every aspect of The White House.

You can sign-up for OFA's email alerts if you want. They are extremely detailed and organized

[Minus_The_Bear]

This White House doesn't give a flying crap about that... sign up for the OFA list with a throw away email or something where you don't mind getting spam.

They are using whatever means necessary to reelect Obama.

[freekitty]

Can they do that?

[RightGeek]

Another taxpayer ripoff