Why do you not allow google to index discussion threads? Sometimes I can remembe...

tachyonbeam · on Oct 11, 2016

What are you talking about? I search reddit using google all the time !?

chatmasta · on Oct 11, 2016

https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt

    Disallow: /*/comments/*?*sort=
    Disallow: /r/*/comments/*/*/c*
    Disallow: /comments/*/*/c*

jedberg · on Oct 11, 2016

Those only block the various sorts and individual comment links. The main comments pages are still searchable.

Google was getting overzealous and indexing every page hundreds of times because it would follow every link, which included every "context" link and every sort.

NoodleIncident · on Oct 11, 2016

It works fine. I don't know if there's a way to get only comments, but if you scroll down to the link to /r/madlads it's clearly indexing them.

"site:reddit.com don't quote me"

I use this all the time to search specific subreddits for phrases in comments I remember, but I don't want to give examples or subreddits I visit.

chatmasta · on Oct 11, 2016

He actually used the site: keyword! The absolute madman!

monksy · on Oct 11, 2016

> /r/madlads

Look at this maverick!

ClassyJacket · on Oct 11, 2016

But it does, it works fine.

ytjohn · on Oct 12, 2016

A lot of times, I see an interesting quote or word on reddit, and I google to find out more, and the first (sometimes only) result is the comment itself. That even happens with comments that are less than an hour old.

Try adding site:reddit.com to your search.