Posted on 05/20/2023 12:27:55 PM PDT by marktwain
I have repeatedly noticed that articles posted on freerepublic are seldom seen in search engine results.
When I have searched for article I post on Gun Watch, which is a small blog, the Gun Watch articles appear in search engines. When the identical article is posted on Freerepublic, it does not show up on search engines, unless the search term freerepublic is specifically included.
Freerepublic has a much greater circulation than Gun Watch.
Has anyone else seen evidence the search engines undervalue freerepublic?
don’t use google. but duck duck go in a tor window at least shows FR just fine.
I have found this to be true.
Also with contemporary issues, Google shows all the old stuff first, not the most recent. I’m sure they would have REALLY important reasons for doing that.
These days if you search for anything on Google then all get is MSM sources.
I have searched by title and seen Posts in FreeRepublic in the top of my results and that is on Chrome. So, no I wouldn’t say banned. I have a feeling that all results on any engine might be throttled for one reason or another, even just to save the search engine’s sanity.
Captain Obvious alert.
bump for later
I just tried it and have to prove that I’m not a robot.
That said, even with the site tag in the search, I used to be able to search using my screen name to find old posts, but I think they also throttle by some usernames, too. I can't find my old stuff anymore unless I get very creative with my search terms.
-PJ
It has always been censored / banned / considered fringe / etc. You just haven’t noticed.
I’m happy for you.
Infiniti of Clearwater and Tampa.
Various Walmarts in the area, USF and Whole Foods.
Among others.
I appreciate your success.
5.56mm
“If you add the word “definition” to the end of your search”
Thanks. That helped.
Still I think the term itself defined, should be the first search result
Likewise, they are probably getting DDoSed from various 3 letter agencies. It’s an easy captcha.
All depends on what else is out there. And what people are searching for. They lean towards what gets used. And remember even though it has all the other features (it will do math for you, and measurement conversions), it is, in the end, a search engine, software to find websites, so the top stuff should be links to websites, its job.
“It has always been censored / banned / considered fringe / etc. You just haven’t noticed.”
Just a few years ago, Google even threw up a “caution” about FR.
I use ddg, and spell out freerepublic as a single word...
No doubt, probably. But then again, Free Republic is my home page, so I just look at it to see articles.
And I’m always happy to see yours!
DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its backend.
I search for salemmedia.com. Google gives me salme.gov (MA).
I search for salem news. Small town newspapers in towns named Salem. Repeatedly, regardless of the suffix or no suffix, Google changes the .com to .gov or .org or .anything to avoid .com.
Compare NexMax to Fox to CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Cox and others.
Newsmax “conservative, far right, extremist”. Equally opionated on the other side described as if mainstream.
The result is that conservative thought is invisible to most Americans.
I don’t use Duck Duck Go, they have admitted (bragged?) that they censor results.
I use Brave via the Brave browser and/or startpage. Startpage shows a whole page of FR listing when searching “free republic”
I just searched on your first sentence and Google showed it as the first match.
A search on your subject line:
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