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by pentagrama·3y ago·view on hn ↗
The other day I was trying to search a comment of a YouTube video that I remembered, but wasn't able to find it with the google search "site:youtube.com [phrase of the comment]", later to find out that YouTube disallows search engines to index comments trough robots.txt https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

>Disallow: /comment

So I guess that works for them.

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In fairness, I'd expect YouTube comments to largely be noise and not worth indexing.