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Here is some background on this: Recently, it has been revealed that Pinterest reverse-image searches Google for uploaded images and adds the Google query resu
by cft 6y ago
Here is some background on this:
Recently, it has been revealed that Pinterest reverse-image searches Google for uploaded images and adds the Google query result to the Pinterest image page for SEO:
https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-hack https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-...
This degrades quality of Google image search, for example this Reddit post on removing Pinterest got 77k upvotes:
Reddit r/LifeProTips to remove Pinterest from Google searches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_when_using_google_add_pinterest_sans_quotes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_whe...
Earlier Reddit petition to Google to remove Pinterest from search results (66k upvotes):
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_needs_to_be_removed_from_google_imo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_ne...
Hacker News discussion of Pinterest's Google scraping:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998
Earlier discussion on HackerNews (1.1k upvotes):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996
"Unpinterested" Chrome extension to combat Pinterest spam (10k+ downloads):
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
- visarga 6y agoI agree, but if you take uninformed users (or users at random, that don't subscribe to a Google related forum) they would be happy with the Pinterest results because the results look nice at first sight and they don't have time to learn about the problem. Google using this signal would conclude that Pinterest is OK for the users.