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I hate Pinterest, all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman. Why do w

I hate Pinterest, all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman. Why do we need an alternative??

Hoasi 6y ago
> If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman It's unfortunate, the only mitigation, for now, is for the source to use the middleman to link back to the source.
loxs 6y ago
Use DuckDuckGo
mattwad 6y ago
I love Pinterest for bookmarking things. Like, if I want to buy a new pair of hiking pants and shop around, I save them all to a new board. Dinner recipes, things like that. But I never look at the feeds or things they suggest.
pen2l 6y ago
> all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. I agree, what I'm most surprised by is it suffers no penalties from Google. Why is consistently on the top for so many searches? How is it that news journals who go the mile of writing things and put it behind a paywall suffer the wrath of Google ranking them down, but a compilation site that erects so many hoops and hassles to get you to the image you found it for on Google is consistently on the top?
zem 6y ago
i love the idea of pinterest, and people's curated boards used to be very high-value search results for a lot of terms. what turned them to garbage was the change to not showing you result pages if you were not logged in to pinterest.
smcameron 6y ago
I've taken to adding -site:pinterest.* to my searches. Google should de-index pinterest.
- adrianmonk 6y ago
  Now that they've launched this, they can't because it would be anti-competitive.
- zamboni-killer 6y ago
  There’s a chrome plugin named “Unpinterested” that does this for you. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
searchableguy 6y ago
What we need is a better search engine. Search results are getting worse.
- tmabraham 6y ago
  Why do you suggest that? Not including Pinterest in your search is not good enough? Also DuckDuckGo exists...
m463 6y ago
you are not the target market. I'm pretty sure the venn diagram of hacker news and pinterest is not one circle. :)
aaron695 6y ago
> Why do we need an alternative?? Because the current Pinterest "pollutes my search results with garbage." It's a massive collation of human knowledge through pictures done for free by users. The might be arguments against it, but to me I'm not sure if it's an idea that's not hugely valuable, yet

I hate Pinterest, all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman. Why do we need an alternative??

Hoasi 6y ago

> If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman It's unfortunate, the only mitigation, for now, is for the source to use the middleman to link back to the source.

loxs 6y ago

Use DuckDuckGo

mattwad 6y ago

I love Pinterest for bookmarking things. Like, if I want to buy a new pair of hiking pants and shop around, I save them all to a new board. Dinner recipes, things like that. But I never look at the feeds or things they suggest.

pen2l 6y ago

> all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage. I agree, what I'm most surprised by is it suffers no penalties from Google. Why is consistently on the top for so many searches? How is it that news journals who go the mile of writing things and put it behind a paywall suffer the wrath of Google ranking them down, but a compilation site that erects so many hoops and hassles to get you to the image you found it for on Google is consistently on the top?

zem 6y ago

i love the idea of pinterest, and people's curated boards used to be very high-value search results for a lot of terms. what turned them to garbage was the change to not showing you result pages if you were not logged in to pinterest.

smcameron 6y ago

I've taken to adding -site:pinterest.* to my searches. Google should de-index pinterest.

adrianmonk 6y ago
Now that they've launched this, they can't because it would be anti-competitive.
zamboni-killer 6y ago
There’s a chrome plugin named “Unpinterested” that does this for you. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...

searchableguy 6y ago

What we need is a better search engine. Search results are getting worse.

tmabraham 6y ago
Why do you suggest that? Not including Pinterest in your search is not good enough? Also DuckDuckGo exists...

m463 6y ago

you are not the target market. I'm pretty sure the venn diagram of hacker news and pinterest is not one circle. :)

aaron695 6y ago

> Why do we need an alternative?? Because the current Pinterest "pollutes my search results with garbage." It's a massive collation of human knowledge through pictures done for free by users. The might be arguments against it, but to me I'm not sure if it's an idea that's not hugely valuable, yet