[familyop]

"He’s not referring to keyword searches on Google that return Free Republic in the search results. He’s talking about the Google traffic analysis statistics for websites to which Free Republic provides external links from its articles."

See comment #24 and #26.

I've admin'd news sites including search engine optimizations. Lefty Google is endlessly stubborn on changing any policy for the sake of any other organization. Google has what we might call a very mechanical general policy of "diversity," but Google is also analytically equal about how they treat various sites. They won't manually intervene, unless they see a real and massive violation of their policy.

My biggest gripe about Google, is that its administrators have implemented different policies for communist nations to suit those nations (China being one example). But so have most of our big slaver corporates that are often announced as being vanguards of freedom and capitalism (Microslut, and all).

[Richard Poe]

familyop writes: Google is also analytically equal about how they treat various sites.

Sadly, what you write is untrue. Google itself now admits that it applies subjective, personal judgments in assigning greater or lesser "value" to Web pages, and thus greater or lesser value to links from those pages.

See "Google Cranks Up the Consensus Engine" by Andrew Orlowski in The Register of December 12, 2008.