3 ms·

Message to pinterest: Please stop ruining google image search. Please. Just stop

jmilinovich 6y ago
Pinterest is definitely an expert level content farm. For Google Image Search in particular, you're right that it does create a bit of a broken end user experience that feels a bit misleading. It's surprising that Google hasn't cracked down on this yet or dealt with the obvious dupes problem (showing image result from Pinterest that came from website a vs showing result from website a).
nraynaud 6y ago
And google search. I was googling around to try to understand how a trailer suspension is designed, and I had pinterest on the first page. Do people actually buy their engineering explanations from Pinterest?
- jmilinovich 6y ago
  Pinterest <3's the longtail :) I'd imagine they have some good diagrams of trailer suspension designs, but almost certainly not as good as a solid YouTube video or blog post..
cblconfederate 6y ago
even without pinterest, G search is dysfunctional with its side pane. Yandex is better
- bserge 6y ago
  Yandex seemed to skew towards non-US/English resources (in Europe, tbf), which could be a good thing depending on what you're looking for. I just tried it again and I have to say I'm impressed by the results. It's like an earlier Google. I tried a few searches that made me rage on Google (dnsmasq, HP/Win10 and ACPI, Openwrt and TomatoUSB related) and Yandex actually shows some decent stuff. Like holy hell, Google tried very hard to show trash from the biggest websites like Youtube (of course), Microsoft (fuck their answers forums, honestly), HP (ditto), Reddit (actually useful), the usual. Even Github is lower in the rankings. Bing is slightly better, but not by much. Yandex shows some useful links I haven't come across. Very interesting, I need to remember to use it more.
  - DanBC 6y ago
    Yandex is particularly good at finding people, especially if you work out the crop tool.
recursive 6y ago
You should re-address your message to google.

Pinterest is definitely an expert level content farm. For Google Image Search in particular, you're right that it does create a bit of a broken end user experience that feels a bit misleading. It's surprising that Google hasn't cracked down on this yet or dealt with the obvious dupes problem (showing image result from Pinterest that came from website a vs showing result from website a).

nraynaud 6y ago

And google search. I was googling around to try to understand how a trailer suspension is designed, and I had pinterest on the first page. Do people actually buy their engineering explanations from Pinterest?

jmilinovich 6y ago
Pinterest <3's the longtail :) I'd imagine they have some good diagrams of trailer suspension designs, but almost certainly not as good as a solid YouTube video or blog post..

cblconfederate 6y ago

even without pinterest, G search is dysfunctional with its side pane. Yandex is better

bserge 6y ago
Yandex seemed to skew towards non-US/English resources (in Europe, tbf), which could be a good thing depending on what you're looking for. I just tried it again and I have to say I'm impressed by the results. It's like an earlier Google. I tried a few searches that made me rage on Google (dnsmasq, HP/Win10 and ACPI, Openwrt and TomatoUSB related) and Yandex actually shows some decent stuff. Like holy hell, Google tried very hard to show trash from the biggest websites like Youtube (of course), Microsoft (fuck their answers forums, honestly), HP (ditto), Reddit (actually useful), the usual. Even Github is lower in the rankings. Bing is slightly better, but not by much. Yandex shows some useful links I haven't come across. Very interesting, I need to remember to use it more.
- DanBC 6y ago
  Yandex is particularly good at finding people, especially if you work out the crop tool.

recursive 6y ago

You should re-address your message to google.