I didn't think there would be anything on FR. And I looked and just saw google in the title, keywords, article and posts. Until the very end of the page - where the Google Urchin Tracker shows up. Does FR receive revenue from that? Does it provide features used within FR? With this, Google can combine my FR page views with other Google access data and other web sites that silently include Google code. Hi, Big Brother!
one of many things google provides is a free tool called ‘analytics’. freerepublic and zillions of other sites use this. it keeps track of every view of every page on your site. it is tremendously useful for figuring out how many viewers you have, what your viewers do when they are on your site, and what web sites they come from, what they were looking for that led them to your site. by using this tool, you are pretty much involving google in every page view of your website. i don’t know what else they do with the information.. you can find the analytics script by looking for the text UA- for the account number.