[Richard Poe]

dayglored: If your concern is that "liberal gatekeepers" are somehow "limiting the influence" of FreeRepublic by manipulating survey results, well... who cares?

The fact that you don't personally care whether or not Google might be waging infowar on FreeRepublic is potentially interesting, I suppose, from an ideological, psychological and perhaps even moral standpoint.

However, your expressions of personal apathy should not be confused with actual discussion of the technical anomaly noted in my article above, to wit, the discrepancy between the traffic reports of WordPress Stats and Google Analytics on January 31, 2009.

Please let's stay on topic.

[dayglored]

> The fact that you don't personally care whether or not Google might be waging infowar on FreeRepublic is potentially interesting, I suppose, from an ideological, psychological and perhaps even moral standpoint.

You -are- joking, right? Sheesh. Please calm down. Nothing of the sort is going on.

Compare the influence of Google Analytics to Google Search. Then do a Google Search with "site:freerepublic.com", and you see:

Results 1 - 20 of 1,420,000 English pages from freerepublic.com. (0.18 seconds)

A million and a half page hits immediately.

Yep, Google is blocking FreeRepublic. Netcraft confirms it.