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FarCenter

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1. By some metrics, they are the number 8 political news site, so they get a lot of traffic now.

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:30 PM

Dec 2016

Since a lot more people are now reading Breitbart, due to all the publicity that they've got, a lot more people are clicking on their pages when they appear in the search results, so Google is moving them up the results page.

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Anyone else notice BreitBart news coming up a lot more in Google searches? [View all] Locut0s Dec 2016 OP

By some metrics, they are the number 8 political news site, so they get a lot of traffic now. FarCenter Dec 2016 #1

That's what I was thinking... Locut0s Dec 2016 #2

It's the inevitable result of all the left's objections to Steve Bannon as their former editor. FarCenter Dec 2016 #4

Google needs to ban that racist hate site. nt MADem Dec 2016 #3