If I really want to find something, I don’t use the FR search. I use Google, Bing, etc., and just include “freerepublic” in the parameters.
Google is no damn good these days for looking up for anything posted on conservative sites.
Years ago I did a google search for one of my own long winded comments. I included “freerepublic” in the parameters. Bingo. It was the very first link listed in the results.
Years go by and again I’m looking up on Google for my very same comment on the very same article. Again, using “freerepublic” in the parameters. Nothing. Instead, I get links to various liberal media sources. CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Vox, Axios, the Huffington post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.
So,I head over to duckduckgo and do my search again, with “freerepublic” in the parameters. Bingo. The very article I was looking for was listed right at the top of my search results.
Ever since then, whenever I’ve done a search on Google for an article on freerepublic, they still give me links to various liberal media sources instead. If they do give me a link to freerepublic, it’s not to the article I’m looking for. Instead, it may give me a link to a FR keyword page or something like that.