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Pinterest is even worse - in Google Images, images are listed but once you enter the site, you're blocked from accessing whatever you have been looking for.

• dazc 10y ago
  I also think Google should do a better job of promoting the original source of the image, since the originator is unlikely to ever get credit.
  • JTxt 10y ago
    Yes, or at least also point to what it believes is the source. "Original copy. Corrections?" or something. Sometimes the original may not be able to handle the traffic.
• alphonsegaston 10y ago
  What's even worse about Pinterest is that almost all the images are derived from an outside source, so you're following this insane route to get at the original content: source image-> indexed by Pinterest -> Google index of Pinterest index -> Pinterest page -> source image. I can't believe that Google is incapable of navigating around this, but Pinterest would probably block them from indexing if they did.
  • frandroid 10y ago
    Pinterest would be foolish to block indexing by Google, though.
    • alphonsegaston 10y ago
      Yeah, I would think so too, but if you spend any time with their apps, you can see how user hostile they are. The UI is awful, data is incredibly difficult to export. They really want to lock you into their narrow channels.
• athenot 10y ago
  Ebay does the same trick… leaves images of old items up and then link is actually a listing of (very loosely) related items, but not the one that was original sought.
• type0 10y ago
  There should be one button option to exclude pinterest from search results, a workaround is to add -site:.pinterest.com to the end of the query when searching for images.
  • ThisIs_MyName 10y ago
    There is an official Google extension which does exactly that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  I've firewalled it for just that reason.