> Pinterest is a visual search engine, not a social network. That's exactly how it was promoted by major general news portals in Poland few years ago - as an a

> Pinterest is a visual search engine, not a social network. That's exactly how it was promoted by major general news portals in Poland few years ago - as an amazing site where you can "pin" images to your board and see what others pick. I did tested it for a while but in comparison to microblogging platform like tumblr or soup it was way too chaotic in displaying content and navigation, so I left it without regrets. In last years it become an annoying element of image search results in Google; it still seems to be sucking out images from other sites either by bots or with human help and pretending to be the source of searched image (which in some cases means it steals the views), and whenever you want to see image you were looking for, it asks you to sign in by dumping curtain over the content blocking it. I don't see how this service can be useful to anyone but s. media influencers and those who naively believe they joined a cool site who does some great thing providing "inspirations".