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!
Sometime, look at the source of an FR thread.
That notifies Google's spider to wake up and suck down the current thread and update those indexes!
For an advertising driven website I can see the utility of this, but how does a quick response from google to a Freeper thread help Free Republic?
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!
I'm not following your point here. I'm not grasping the utility of this.