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I honestly do not understand why google allows pinterest to wreck their image search. I'm sure there is some sort of ad kick back, but it is just awful. Its o

I honestly do not understand why google allows pinterest to wreck their image search. I'm sure there is some sort of ad kick back, but it is just awful. Its one of the main reasons I switched to duckduckgo as my default search.

nvrGiveUp 6y ago
I am not convinced it's "SEO" or plenty of other small companies with perfect SEO would be similarly high. Over the years Google has gotten especially questionable in various content it recommends, and as an opposite, hiding wikipedia from results unless specifically adding wiki.
bombcar 6y ago
Any GIS result that’s from Pinterest - I have NEVER been able to find the image shown in the preview on the resultant page.
wmeredith 6y ago
Is there a way to just block a domain from my search results? I swear I used to be able to do this.
- fatbird 6y ago
  Per search, if you preface the site operator with - (e.g., -site:pinterest.com), it'll exclude that site. It doesn't help much because pinterest results pollute from multiple top level country domains.
  - mkr-hn 6y ago
    Try -inurl:pinterest
  - Blikkentrekker 6y ago
    `-site:domain.*` works to exclude all country codes.
- tesseract 6y ago
  Google used to have a Chrome extension called Personal Blocklist[1] for this but it's no longer available. [1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...
- esperent 6y ago
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
Blikkentrekker 6y ago
It's rather easy to keep it out: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=kabedon+-site%3Apinterest https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=kabedon+-site%3Apin....
- diveanon 6y ago
  It's easier to just use a search engine that values user experience.
mkr-hn 6y ago
Simple answer: Pinterest isn't for you Less simple answer: Pinterest has 335 million active users for a reason. It's where people go to collect fantasy boyfriends from TV and movies (not a dig, it's a valid hobby), plan weddings, and generally anything where collecting images from around the web is useful. It's Pinboard for a completely different realm of niches from what you're familiar with. Pinterest ranks because those results are useful for more people than they annoy.
- arthurcolle 6y ago
  > (not a dig, it's a valid hobby) How is this valid? Seems like an awfully silly waste of time.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - drenvuk 6y ago
    Who appointed you the fun czar?
    - arthurcolle 6y ago
      I usurped the throne.
  - UShouldBWorking 6y ago
    It's the feminization of the internet. It started with facebook, bleed into reddit and how sites like pinterest are 100% aimed at women. As a man it seems insane and like a waste of time, but such is life.
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  With all the personalization that Google employs, one should assume that it can figure this out or that it allows one to, for instance, in some setting, block Pinterest unless one explicitly ask for it by including the keyword “pinterest” in one's search. Perhaps it should be possible to downvote search results to further create a better personalized effect — continually downvoting Pinterest should have a desired effect.
tobr 6y ago
> Its one of the main reasons I switched to duckduckgo as my default search. Ditto. AMP and Pinterest are two daily frustrations with Google that pushed me to DDG. I would say DDG’s image search is clearly superior to Google’s, not only because it does a better job keeping out SEO spam. It also still allows you to link directly to the image.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  Personally been very impressed with yandex image search lately. Their reverse search is like the good pre-ai google one where it actually searched for the image not just search for the ai defined content + color scheme.

nvrGiveUp 6y ago

I am not convinced it's "SEO" or plenty of other small companies with perfect SEO would be similarly high. Over the years Google has gotten especially questionable in various content it recommends, and as an opposite, hiding wikipedia from results unless specifically adding wiki.

bombcar 6y ago

Any GIS result that’s from Pinterest - I have NEVER been able to find the image shown in the preview on the resultant page.

wmeredith 6y ago

Is there a way to just block a domain from my search results? I swear I used to be able to do this.

fatbird 6y ago
Per search, if you preface the site operator with - (e.g., -site:pinterest.com), it'll exclude that site. It doesn't help much because pinterest results pollute from multiple top level country domains.
- mkr-hn 6y ago
  Try -inurl:pinterest
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  `-site:domain.*` works to exclude all country codes.
tesseract 6y ago
Google used to have a Chrome extension called Personal Blocklist[1] for this but it's no longer available. [1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...
esperent 6y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

Blikkentrekker 6y ago

It's rather easy to keep it out: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=kabedon+-site%3Apinterest https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=kabedon+-site%3Apin....

diveanon 6y ago
It's easier to just use a search engine that values user experience.

mkr-hn 6y ago

Simple answer: Pinterest isn't for you Less simple answer: Pinterest has 335 million active users for a reason. It's where people go to collect fantasy boyfriends from TV and movies (not a dig, it's a valid hobby), plan weddings, and generally anything where collecting images from around the web is useful. It's Pinboard for a completely different realm of niches from what you're familiar with. Pinterest ranks because those results are useful for more people than they annoy.

arthurcolle 6y ago
> (not a dig, it's a valid hobby) How is this valid? Seems like an awfully silly waste of time.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- drenvuk 6y ago
  Who appointed you the fun czar?
  - arthurcolle 6y ago
    I usurped the throne.
- UShouldBWorking 6y ago
  It's the feminization of the internet. It started with facebook, bleed into reddit and how sites like pinterest are 100% aimed at women. As a man it seems insane and like a waste of time, but such is life.
Blikkentrekker 6y ago
With all the personalization that Google employs, one should assume that it can figure this out or that it allows one to, for instance, in some setting, block Pinterest unless one explicitly ask for it by including the keyword “pinterest” in one's search. Perhaps it should be possible to downvote search results to further create a better personalized effect — continually downvoting Pinterest should have a desired effect.

tobr 6y ago

> Its one of the main reasons I switched to duckduckgo as my default search. Ditto. AMP and Pinterest are two daily frustrations with Google that pushed me to DDG. I would say DDG’s image search is clearly superior to Google’s, not only because it does a better job keeping out SEO spam. It also still allows you to link directly to the image.

whywhywhywhy 6y ago
Personally been very impressed with yandex image search lately. Their reverse search is like the good pre-ai google one where it actually searched for the image not just search for the ai defined content + color scheme.