Thanks for posting this. It’s been real bad. Is FR being constantly Bombarded with lefty denial of service attacks or something? It’s turned into just about the slowest site I visit.
I think it might be due to some mysterious internal change in Google’s ranking algorithm.
FreeRepublic articles are now coming up ABOVE the actual website that produced the content.
Even stranger, any new thread on FreeRepublic is indexed within 5 minutes now, sometimes within 2 minutes!! You can check it yourself. Go to new threads, see the title to the thread, copy it and paste it into a Google search. Google is indexing FR continuously now. I wouldn’t be surprised if the spider bot traffic is a partial cause of this.