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If Casey Winters did the "growth hacking" at Pinterest he is responsible for polluting search results with useless, paywalled Pinterest spam. Pinterest is like

• 27182818284 7y ago
  Yeah for years I've found myself having to "-pinterest" out of searches. I wish that it was just removed period.
  • russh 7y ago
    And this is how I know google does not give a shite about the people who actually use their search engine as a search engine.
• overcast 7y ago
  That Pinterest google spam paywall is equivalent to follow/unfollow bots on instagram. While it is effective at gaining followers/signups, it's not bringing value added people. Of course if your metric for success is hockey stick user growth, then sure. I suspect if Pinterest did some user account house cleaning, you'd see millions of trash accounts go with it.