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Finding comments on LW is more painful than it should be because sometimes this happens:
Here's a typical example; it happens to use only Z (I picked one of my comments from a couple of weeks ago) but including X and Y seldom helps.
I just tried the equivalent search in Bing and the results were more satisfactory, but only because the comment in question happened to appear fairly near the top of the overview page for the user I was replying to. I would guess that Bing isn't actually systematically better for these searches, but I haven't tested.
Does anyone know a good workaround for this problem?
Is there a way to make the dynamically-generated sidebar stuff on LW pages invisible to Google's crawler? It looks like there is. Should I file an issue on GitHub?
Yes, you should do this.