As you know I just posted this to p!ss you off.
And to say - once again - that Free Republic’s search feature is a joke.
I've found that it works fine if used as it's designed. For instance, a title search for "billion" turned up the previous story just fine. Rather than searching for the whole title, or by keyword, searching for just one distinctive word in the title (while searching *by* title) usually works quite well.