[DiogenesLamp]

So I put in “Site:freerepublic.com no longer linking”, and this thread is the first item on the list

That it would pick up this thread so quickly on google ought to be of itself a cause for concern.

Why would google have such up to date information about the commentary on Free Republic?

[BuckeyeTexan]

It’s a search engine. It should be current. I’d be concerned if it weren’t.

[cynwoody]

That it would pick up this thread so quickly on google ought to be of itself a cause for concern.

Actually, it's testimony to the skill of John Robinson.

Sometime, look at the source of an FR thread. Towards the bottom, you will see something like:

    <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-2288668-1"; urchinTracker();</script>

That notifies Google's spider to wake up and suck down the current thread and update those indexes!

This can be quite useful when some crackpot posts garbage on a thread. Just look up what he posted. If the current thread comes up first in the search results, you can bet he's invalid!