[palmer]

My previous post is to show you are correct. In the past Google would immediately index all of our FR comments, so I would have seen yours in my search results. Now the index contains old comments, but apparently not the new ones. I will keep checking.

[palmer]

I searched for "potential five billion additional barrels of oil" at Google (with quotes), and got one result, the original bray thread. When I asked for omitted results I got the Sunday morning thread along with repeats of the Bray thread and the Sunday morning thread.

So I believe Google is still indexing both FR posts and comments (Bray's post and Alas Babylon's comment containing Bray's post). Good enough for now, but worth monitoring.