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I don't get why Google hasn't cleaned up the Pinterest spam in Google Images: - Using Google Images search for: fun crafts. - Results loaded with Pinterest ho
by jasonsync 8y ago
I don't get why Google hasn't cleaned up the Pinterest spam in Google Images:
- Using Google Images search for: fun crafts.
- Results loaded with Pinterest hosted images.
- Visit any of those Pinterest hosted image pages
- The page on Pinterest may not include the image you are looking for (anymore)
- Or the Pinterest page may be an intermediary page that links to some other external website with the original image (Google doesn't give the original website the traffic)
- After 5 seconds you start getting prompts to create a Pinterest account
- devoply 8y agoMaybe they or their executives have some investments tied up in Pintrest. But yeah I hate landing on a Pintrest page for search results. It's like the mid-2000s all over again.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoMy bet is simply that Pinterest managed to game Google's algorithm while technically doing nothing wrong, so there's little Google can do other than explicitly blacklist them - which they obviously won't do.
- ssnistfajen 8y agoIf I can at least see the image I looked for in the Pinterest link, then I wouldn't have hated it as much. However the reality is every Google image search click to Pinterest is wasted time because the actual image is pretty much never there.