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They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.
by ghostcluster 7y ago
They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.
- ravenstine 7y agoWhy? The Pinterest UX is god awful, but I often find stuff on there that I can't find elsewhere(easily). Maybe you can filter out those results by domain? It would be nice if you could just add it as a setting, though.
- type0 7y agoMaybe they could provide those result for logged in users and leave out pinterest for everyone else.
- ravenstine 7y agoI can see stuff on Pinterest and have never logged in. I don't think I'd support search engines removing Pinterest merely because it has a nag screen.
- Ensorceled 7y agoIt's not the nag screen. I have a pinterest account and want it removed because it's almost always a dead end and it's full of spam. If you are searching for something and find a link to pinterest and click on it ... then what? You see a bunch of images of the thing you are looking for: no article on bobcats, no way to buy "winter running shoes", no way to buy that book, ...
- nullc 7y agoWhen you do find it on pinterest it's on a contextless image that links nowhere. Many times I've been looking for some obscure part that I would like to purchase, only to find search results flooded with pinterest images of it that are utterly useless-- they don't even tell me what the part is called, and certainly don't let me find where the image came from. If pinterest was using a GAN to generate plausible random images would we even know?
- ravenstine 7y agoMaybe this is something I've never noticed, or I brushed it off without thinking about it. If that's what Pinterest is doing, then I can see why I'm being downvoted.
- tempestn 7y agoWould be nice if you could get the answer to a reasonable question without the down-votes though.
- nullc 7y agoI wonder how much disagreement shows up online because the internet is so different for each of us... from just different interests to search customization. We could both be completely right about our own experiences. It makes sense too that if Pinterest is promoted hard enough to get an 'adequate' dosage to everyone, that some people are going to be overdosed really hard even before you begin to factor in differences in tolerance. I routinely search with site filtering to eliminate it, but every time I forget it's like stubbing my toe and I feel dumb for forgetting the 19 character magic word required to get useful results. Doubly so because I often misspell it. If the web were my shell I would have punched in "alias gis=..." long ago.
- stevenicr 7y agoI have had mixed results with that as a user - sometimes I get to see a few pages of scroll before the nag screen to sign up.. sometimes it seemed timed instead, like not even second page scroll. Other times I was able to scroll through hundred on 'pins' before the sign up screen. I also remember times when I had three seconds to look at a screen and then most visuals are blocked by the sign up screen. Not sure if they are playing with this on a global scale or if my ublock and similar plugins affect it. The times when I could not see what I had expected - just an overlay nag screen, I certainly wish they were not in the results. Other times I found the curated visual content of pinterest to be better then google results or google image search. I had thought the big G algo already punished for showing full content to the crawler but blocked content to average web browser.. however I had the feeling some time ago that some manual tweaking on google's side and perhaps pin's side started affecting how all that was working together or not.
- qwerty456127 7y agoWhy? I once found (for purely personal use) a unique picture which was exactly what I needed this way and that played a valuable role in my life. And the preview I could get without having to actually sign-in to Pinterest was sufficient for my purpose.
- rednixion 7y agoBecause often the image that was indexed was in the related/other area of the page and is not on the page when you click on the link. Ever since Google removed the direct link to image feature from the search results page anything from pinterest.com is basically SEO spam.
- qwerty456127 7y ago> Because often the image that was indexed was in the related/other area of the page and is not on the page when you click on the link. Every time I've been affected I could find the image in a couple of seconds of scrolling > Ever since Google removed the direct link to image feature from the search results page It's easy to add it back. Most of the people here (me included) use ad blockers, downloaders and stuff like probably violating the Google user agreement, they should not have any problem installing a small userscript/extension to forget about this problem as well.
- konart 7y agoBecause instead of a direct link to the creator's accout you get this copy pasta and this bs: https://imgur.com/a/uhrFVvp https://imgur.com/a/uhrFVvp
- jquery 7y agoThey don’t show that pop up anymore in the majority of countries when you come over from a google link.
- konart 7y agoWell, they show it here in Russia, but even then - you are still landing on a pinterest page instead of the original (say instagram or pixiv, or whatever). And for the majority of people - this will be the final destination..
- rdlecler1 7y agoI can’t upvote this enough. It’s deeply spammy.
- extropy 7y agoPinterest is already deeply demoted. I'm using Pinterest results as a sign that there is literally nothing else that matches my search.
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- seminatl 7y agoPart of search quality is serving nothing when there are no results. Putting a bunch of irrelevant Pinterest pages in the results, just because there are no good results, isn’t good for users.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI don't agree. I may be desperate for a result in some situations. If there's a small chance there's something useful out there, I still want to see it. I get to decide whether it's worth my time to look.
- joshvm 7y agoThe problem with Pinterest is that often the image looks exactly like what you want - eg search for diy furniture plans and a lot of links are Pinterest. That image came from a source somewhere, but Pinterest has better SEO than the source.
- forgetcolor 7y agoFor years now I have used "-pinterest" on every regular search term I utilize (I bake that into any Google bookmark). Would applaud the removal of Pinterest from search results.
- okanesen 7y agoExcluding via search works but there is also a script [0] - not affiliated - which you can use to block other domains as well. [0]: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
- DrJaws 7y agoeven google had their own extension to do this few years ago until they deleted it from the chrome web store, personal blocklist was called. There is now another alternative, ublacklist https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
- thuruv 7y agoThis i do too with Quora too. It's too much
- smcameron 7y ago-site:pinterest.* (hmm, I have to put something here or else the asterisk disappears.)
- LeoPanthera 7y agoThis is the better option, since it does not hide sites which simply contain the word "pinterest", but are not pinterest.
- arthurfm 7y agoThere's a Chrome extension called Unpinterested! [1] that automatically adds this to all Google Image search queries. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
- SilasX 7y agoAnd instagram, since they require you to log in after like ten seconds.
- JacksCracked 7y agoAnd Facebook, requires login on scroll like Pinterest
- stabbles 7y agoFor those who don't know, this is entirely client side. If you want, you can delete the overlay (single div) from the dom and remove an 'overflow: hidden' inline style, and continue to scroll the page and look at pictures without logging in.
- SilasX 7y agoInteresting, thanks! Is there an easy way to do that on mobile?
- mcv 7y agoNot that I know. I really miss developer tools on mobile. Developer tools are practically required to be able to use the web these days.
- RandomBacon 7y agoI use this bookmark: javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})();document.querySelector('body').style.setProperty('overflow','auto','important'); document.querySelector('html').style.setProperty('overflow','auto','important');})()
- mcv 7y agoI do this already for so many sites these days. And it's fairly simple. I wouldn't mind an extension that automated this for me.
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoIndeed. I always swear when I forget to add -Pinterest to my queries.
- Aardwolf 7y agoYes, dislike that one too, a grid of tiny images which if you click on them are still tiny and try to make you sign up
- duskwuff 7y agoAnd many Google hits for Pinterest images land you on pages with dozens or hundreds of images, making it extremely difficult to find the actual image you searched for, and, from there, to find the original source of the image. The whole process seems designed to provide as little attribution to the original author of the image as possible.
- dvtrn 7y agoWhy does XKCD have to be SO relevant SO damn much? https://xkcd.com/869/ https://xkcd.com/869/
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoHuman greed is predictably predictable. In other news, water is wet.
- trianglem 7y agoThis is a much bigger problem than Quora that at least links to the right page.
- mistermann 7y agoI would gladly pay Google $x/year for advanced features like weighting of domains, return of "+" (that actually worked), etc.
- frazerb 7y agoWould be a great feature to add to Google One? Or a reason to switch search engines, I guess.
- rhizome 7y agoTampermonkey extension to blacklist domains from search: http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
- brokenmachine 7y agoIsn't surrounding the term with quotes meant to do the same thing as "+" used to?
- mistermann 7y agoYes, but it is an annoying pita, and the silly reason it was changed, but not changed back when the initiative collapsed, continues to rustle my jimmies.
- thiht 7y ago"I would pay" seems to be the solution to everything on HN. Would you?
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- atomi 7y agoIt's horribly spammy. I just cannot imagine working for a company like Pinterest. If someone here works for Pinterest, I would love to know what it's like.
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- ratww 7y agoI just checked and there's still a sign up wall. It is not as blatant as it was before, but I can't spend more than 10 seconds or click on anything without getting it. Can't even enlarge the picture or visit the original website. The spammy results problem is super easy to solve from Pinterest's side. Just make pages full of images non-indexable and provide simple pages with one single image and there will be no more spammy results. By "easy" I mean technically. Pinterest is a scummy company and I doubt they'd lift a finger to make things better for the web and its users.
- grawprog 7y ago>The “spammy” results are when Google indexes a page full of images and picks a “representative” image. No the spammy results are when I search for something on google, it gives me a Pinterest link that matches my search term exactly, the link has absolutely nothing to do with what I was actually searching for and if you click onto it, you're met with a page full of random Pinterest crap for about 3 seconds before it busts out a signup wall in your face and to top it off it'll take you at least 5 clicks of the back button to actually get off the page. I find it happens a lot searching for tutorials for things. ETA: to address the original question, I find quora annoying, but a lot less than Pinterest. I actually do get decent results when I can view a page. It just seems to be random whether it throws an account wall up or not. I find copying and pasting a link to a related question into a new tab will sometimes work if I close the original tab first, but not always.
- SalimoS 7y agoJust add a share=1 to the link and it will work
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- giancarlostoro 7y agoQuora and Pinterest are the worst parts of Google results. Also Google Images has been ruined. Used to be you could View Image and get the source image but now Google images hijacks that too. I gotta say I hate whoever decided that was ok. Do what I mean. Actually come to think of it I think this was due to copyright infringement case against Google. Stupid.
- kevinconaway 7y agoI believe the decision to remove that was forced on them by a lawsuit The following HN thread has more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
- edjroot 7y agoFYI you can (for now) get the "View image" button back with this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image/
- Galactor963 7y agoHere's a Chrome version too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
- faitswulff 7y agoIIRC this was due to a lost court case: > Almost two years ago, Getty Images filed antitrust charges against Google in the EU, taking issue with the company's image scraping techniques to display image search results. Earlier this week, Google and Getty Images announced a partnership and Getty withdrew its charges against Google. Changes like the removal of direct image links were apparently part of the agreement. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after-google-removes-view-image-button-bowing-to-getty/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after... Meanwhile, the browser feature right click -> "View Image" still works for me on Firefox, as a replacement.
- jacquesl 7y agoAmen. I miss results that aren’t just SEO optimizations. Sites like this hurt the quality of the web by suppressing results that are what people are searching for.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoAmen. It's useless.
- etxm 7y agoThe most worthless of search results.
- knodi123 7y agoI installed a chrome extension called "Unpinterested!" which does just that - removes all pinterest results from image search. It was one of those cases where I was getting ready to build it, and then I thought "wait, I bet this already exists for free." Sure enough....
- infectoid 7y agoGee the numbers of times I've had to add "-pinterest -quora". I wish there was just a permanent filter I could add in my Google serach settings.