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How does it manage to rank so well? I'm not a user of it but whenever it appears in searches it feels like endless popups and walled content that tries to make
by seanwilson 8y ago
How does it manage to rank so well? I'm not a user of it but whenever it appears in searches it feels like endless popups and walled content that tries to make you sign up. I would have thought Google would discourage links like this.
- friedman23 8y agoI think it's pretty clear that almost everyone that uses hackernews is in a bubble and this bubble does not include people that use Pinterest.
- exolymph 8y agoYes, but I'd be shocked if a majority of people using Google Images are on Pinterest.
- seanwilson 8y agoTrue, but Google is already meant to penalise pages that have intrusive popups so what's the difference? https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
- buboard 8y agoif people use it because it is spammy and plasters itself on user's faces, then it's right to call them out for it
- AJ007 8y agoMy guess is they hired Google engineers that worked on Image search, or they have active sources within Google now. Pinterest definitely should have been penalized, and I suspect at some point they will be.
- behringer 8y agoThey're almost certainly paying for the privilege.
- creato 8y agoIt was probably originally an SEO game, and Google is probably now afraid to fix it lest they have another Yelp or Foundem on their hands.