Questions: Why are all links to FR posts deleted at Google?

June 23, 2017 | me

[drpix]

"I was talking about generic search on Freerepublic by typing in just one keyword "Freerepublic." That used to bring many links to FR posts but now you may need to scroll many pages to see one if ever."

That search just on "Freerepublic" has always returned all links containing that keyword - on whatever site it occurs.

If in the past a higher percent of the returned links were to FR page, that could only mean that non-FR sites were mentioning the name "Freerepublic" far less frequently than they are mentioning it now.

To restrict your results to FR site you need to add to your search:

site:freerepublic.com {with no space after site:}

[drpix]

Here's 1.5 million results for "site:freerepublic Freerepublic" - which are all FR.

[wardaddy]

Pardon?

The old google cache would pull up posts here that had been deleted

And better listed their posting history via dates

If you know how to still do that please help me specifically I don’t know what other nations means

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Wonderful! Thanks!

[AdmSmith]

If you go to Google news you can see that they have redesigned it https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-news-gets-a-fresh-coat-of-pain/

The new version is targeted to people using smartphones and looking at pictures, 1/3 of screen (left side) taken up just to list categories. Another 1/3 of screen (right side) taken up by ‘garbage links’. Then news headings with a picture and not even a paragraph or sentence regarding the story.

I do not think they have a link for the old design that was much faster to search and find relevant information. Now you have to scroll a lot. Searching in several languages takes ages. The information density/page is going to zero and the the multiple links to each topic are no longer immediately visible. Why are designers going for modern art instead of functionality?

This is Yahoo news again.

[TigerLikesRooster]

This seems to be a common trend. They are butchering functionality to squeeze things into a small smart phone screen. People can only see a few items they picked for us.

Unless you do keyword searches, you are not really going anywhere. It would be handy to have the list of keywords or phrases for your search.

[SamAdams76]

The Internet has grown quite a bit since I used to access Prodigy on a 2400 baud dial-up. It would take several minutes for a thumBnail image to raster. I used to curse the early Freepers for putting images in their replies back in the late 1990s.

Now I have a fast internet but what I want right now is a big plate of bacon and fried eggs.

[samtheman]

Current content is still indexed as it should be. Ex: https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bsite:freerepublic.com+%2Brand

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I don’t know...

I just typed this in google:

freerepublic.com:CNN

Should have listed links to all threads with CNN in the title, starting with most recent, but it didn’t find this one:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3564732/posts
Retracted CNN story a boon for president at war with media

[AdmSmith]

This works: https://www.google.com/search?num=20&tbm=nws&tbas=0&q=news

click on the link above and write the keywords for what you are looking for instead of “news”

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yeah, something like that.

[ETL]

I was talking about generic search on Freerepublic by typing in just one keyword "Freerepublic." That used to bring many links to FR posts but now you may need to scroll many pages to see one if ever.

But that's the case for any conservative news source. You typically have to wade through 5 or 6 pages of left wing-biased results.