Yahoo, Google and Firefox all run on the Linux search engine.
Bing runs on Microsoft server. If you sign in to Internet Explorer and use Bing for the search engine you will have no problem running Free Republic.
By the way, you should install Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer on your system. You can then pick and choose which one to use, but if one goes down you will still have a way to get on the internet.
One can never have too many places to run/explore.
The Linux search engine? That is compete and utter nonsense (along with the rest of your post).
If you have no idea what you are talking about, please don't.