[cynwoody]

Personally, I don't quite get how blocking some readers just because they came to the site from a search engine helps Murdoch's bottom line.

The odd thing is that WSJ currently does just the opposite. Visitors from Google are privileged, not shut out. See my post #12 above.

FreeRepublic is searchable on Google. I'm sure that more than a few FReepers have found their way here as a result of a Google search.

Try typing this query into Google and see what comes up:

"good luck with that strategy" google bing opensecrets

Google has gotten really fast at keeping up with FreeRepublic. When I tried the above with Bing (after trying it on Google), I got zilch. So, either Bing discriminates against FR, or it has a mojo deficit. Not being prone to conspiracy theories, I lean towards the latter.

[Redcloak]

Google has gotten really fast at keeping up with FreeRepublic.

I have been amazed at how quickly Google indexes new material on FreeRepublic.