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This is the most I've ever gotten out of pinterest, other than this, it's just the "wrong site that google turns up, that I can't use because it wants me to cre

by dusted 6y ago

This is the most I've ever gotten out of pinterest, other than this, it's just the "wrong site that google turns up, that I can't use because it wants me to create an account just to watch the image I searched for"

randunel 6y ago
The most frequent search keyword that I use is "-pinterest"
- amelius 6y ago
  Yes, there seems to be no way to make it clear to Google that we want to never see certain websites in our search results. Yet, Google claims they need our information to "improve our experience".
  - mcv 6y ago
    If Google wants my information to improve my experience, I'd love to be able to vote search results up or down. Or entire sites, like pinterest and content farms.
    - hadrien01 6y ago
      Wasn't that a thing? I remember a +1 button somewhere on Google Search Edit: I misremembered, it was a social network thing from Google+ https://www.techspot.com/news/43064-google-adds-1-button-to-search-results.html https://www.techspot.com/news/43064-google-adds-1-button-to-...
      - rachelbythebay 6y ago
        There was a thing called SearchWiki where you could adjust your own results. It didn't last long.
  - andromeduck 6y ago
    -pintrest should be a search extension.
  - hnlmorg 6y ago
    For what it's worth, DDG image results doesn't get spammed by Pinterest. While my browsing is a drop in the ocean compared to Googles market share, using a Google competitor is as clear a signal as one can send that you're unhappy with the Google service.
jeromenerf 6y ago
This is one situation where a duckduckgo search is objectively of a better signal/noise ratio.
csunbird 6y ago
I am not sure why google does not penalize this behavior in their search ranking.
sercankd 6y ago
Yeah i always believed it was some kind of lone evil ai that lives through search results.
- segfaultbuserr 6y ago
  The worse experience is when you have found a dead link that contains useful information that exists only as Pinterest snapshot while doing a web search...
saagarjha 6y ago
Can we not do the thing where we pick an organization from an article and then bring up the most generic complaint you can about it in a way that is entirely irrelevant to the post? We get it, you don't like Pinterest showing up in search results, nobody does. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the article other than it being pattern matching on the word "Pinterest", which is about the least informative comment you can make aside from outright trolling or spam. There are threads that come up from time to time where such comments would be appropriate, if not particularly substantive.
- nabaraz 6y ago
  HN has always been very predictive. Praise Microsoft for turning the corner, Dislike Google for ads and snooping, Praise Apple for privacy, Dislike Zoom for privacy, Dislike Pinterest for middlewaring Google Image, and so on.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    I'm not even complaining about Hacker News being predictive, we all know that likes to have certain conversations and there is no stopping that. My only request is that this doesn't happen in every single thread regardless of whether it is relevant or not. (To be clear, I am "guilty" of the former myself; there are a handful of topics that I have a particular opinion about and I don't hesitate to share them even if I have mentioned them many times before. I just try to not bring them up in places where they clearly have no connection to what's being talked about.)
  - dctoedt 6y ago
    Friendly amendment: *predictable
- amelius 6y ago
  So if Monsanto/Bayer had a post about their bio informatics stack, you'd expect nobody to complain about the company and its business practices? Sometimes the negative impact of a company is just more interesting to people than what the article brings to the table.
some_furry 6y ago
This fact has forced people to write browser extensions to filter Pinterest out. I opt for the "teach non-tech people how to dork" route instead: https://soatok.blog/2020/07/21/dorking-your-way-to-search-results-that-dont-suck/ https://soatok.blog/2020/07/21/dorking-your-way-to-search-re...
Joker_vD 6y ago
Y'know, I actually made a Pinterest account once because of one particular picture I really wanted. Guess what, even with an account you can't have it. Oh well, guess I'll just let it go.
bufferoverflow 6y ago
That's my experience too. Imagine how many views they have lost over the years, just because they require a login. And shame on you, Google, for playing along and indexing their shit, when it's not visible when I click through.
syncsynchalt 6y ago
They also created/maintain the kotlin linter, "ktlint".

by dusted 6y ago

randunel 6y ago

The most frequent search keyword that I use is "-pinterest"

amelius 6y ago
Yes, there seems to be no way to make it clear to Google that we want to never see certain websites in our search results. Yet, Google claims they need our information to "improve our experience".
- mcv 6y ago
  If Google wants my information to improve my experience, I'd love to be able to vote search results up or down. Or entire sites, like pinterest and content farms.
  - hadrien01 6y ago
    Wasn't that a thing? I remember a +1 button somewhere on Google Search Edit: I misremembered, it was a social network thing from Google+ https://www.techspot.com/news/43064-google-adds-1-button-to-search-results.html https://www.techspot.com/news/43064-google-adds-1-button-to-...
    - rachelbythebay 6y ago
      There was a thing called SearchWiki where you could adjust your own results. It didn't last long.
- andromeduck 6y ago
  -pintrest should be a search extension.
- hnlmorg 6y ago
  For what it's worth, DDG image results doesn't get spammed by Pinterest. While my browsing is a drop in the ocean compared to Googles market share, using a Google competitor is as clear a signal as one can send that you're unhappy with the Google service.

jeromenerf 6y ago

This is one situation where a duckduckgo search is objectively of a better signal/noise ratio.

csunbird 6y ago

I am not sure why google does not penalize this behavior in their search ranking.

sercankd 6y ago

Yeah i always believed it was some kind of lone evil ai that lives through search results.

segfaultbuserr 6y ago
The worse experience is when you have found a dead link that contains useful information that exists only as Pinterest snapshot while doing a web search...

saagarjha 6y ago

Can we not do the thing where we pick an organization from an article and then bring up the most generic complaint you can about it in a way that is entirely irrelevant to the post? We get it, you don't like Pinterest showing up in search results, nobody does. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the article other than it being pattern matching on the word "Pinterest", which is about the least informative comment you can make aside from outright trolling or spam. There are threads that come up from time to time where such comments would be appropriate, if not particularly substantive.

nabaraz 6y ago
HN has always been very predictive. Praise Microsoft for turning the corner, Dislike Google for ads and snooping, Praise Apple for privacy, Dislike Zoom for privacy, Dislike Pinterest for middlewaring Google Image, and so on.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I'm not even complaining about Hacker News being predictive, we all know that likes to have certain conversations and there is no stopping that. My only request is that this doesn't happen in every single thread regardless of whether it is relevant or not. (To be clear, I am "guilty" of the former myself; there are a handful of topics that I have a particular opinion about and I don't hesitate to share them even if I have mentioned them many times before. I just try to not bring them up in places where they clearly have no connection to what's being talked about.)
- dctoedt 6y ago
  Friendly amendment: *predictable
amelius 6y ago
So if Monsanto/Bayer had a post about their bio informatics stack, you'd expect nobody to complain about the company and its business practices? Sometimes the negative impact of a company is just more interesting to people than what the article brings to the table.

some_furry 6y ago

This fact has forced people to write browser extensions to filter Pinterest out. I opt for the "teach non-tech people how to dork" route instead: https://soatok.blog/2020/07/21/dorking-your-way-to-search-results-that-dont-suck/ https://soatok.blog/2020/07/21/dorking-your-way-to-search-re...

Joker_vD 6y ago

Y'know, I actually made a Pinterest account once because of one particular picture I really wanted. Guess what, even with an account you can't have it. Oh well, guess I'll just let it go.

bufferoverflow 6y ago

That's my experience too. Imagine how many views they have lost over the years, just because they require a login. And shame on you, Google, for playing along and indexing their shit, when it's not visible when I click through.

syncsynchalt 6y ago

They also created/maintain the kotlin linter, "ktlint".