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pinterest. Bane of all image searches.
by jerjerjer 5y ago
pinterest. Bane of all image searches.
- jader201 5y agoIt’s a bit ridiculous, really. I actually don’t feel the need to ban that many sites. I would probably be happy if I could just ban them. How can one site be so bad?
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI don't actually want Google to index as much of the internet as it possibly can. I actually want streamlined indices that are tailored towards thoroughly searching a specific knowledge domain. Edit: I would love, love, love a search engine specifically tailored towards programming questions. One that doesn't treat queries like "C# ?." as me looking for "C#" and getting the most generic results possible.
- dhosek 5y agoI had an idea for this where I was building a manually-constructed index of sites kind of like old-school Yahoo (related to typography), and then there would be a full-text search of those URLs and their close relatives (pretty much, the idea being that for a given URL, I'd index anything else in the same URL directory or subdirectories of that URL). I ended up giving up on it largely because time is finite and I have plenty of other projects competing for my time. I imagine something that built on the basic idea though could work, by omitting the Yahoo-style directory and instead working from a collection of vetted URL starting points.
- amelius 5y agoYes, instead of Google collecting information about me to improve my search experience, I want: - A box where I can select the context of my search. - The box then appends a specific string to the query. For example, if I set the box to "clothes", the box will append "waist 34 inch, 5 feet tall" to the query. If I set the box to "programming", the box will append "favorite_languages:Python,C++" to the query. And of course a search engine should interpret it accordingly. No need to collect and store my personal information.
- godshatter 5y agoI just want a search engine that gives me AND, OR, and NOT qualifiers or something similar. Parens, too, if possible. Ideally, an sql interface, but that's probably pushing it :)
- johnebgd 5y agoI’d like a ban lis option with public ban lists that I can elect to use so I can avoid having to spend time doing this manually. Think of it as server side uBlock for search results.
- U8dcN7vx 5y agoIf you have a (very) short list you can make/modify a search engine entry to add a -site:which.ever for each that cause problems. The problem is that the scummy sites are legion but the negate list / search term limit usually cannot handle many - I don't know what Brave's limits might be.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoseriously, any Googlers around that are close enough to search to know why Pinterest is still dominating image results despite being incredibly low quality? this is a widely known problem.
- kylebenzle 5y agoWe have had a few posts about this, a blog from an ex-employee explained it basically as Pintrest spending tens of millions to do everthing they can to game Google search results and they arn't going to stop any time soon. Pinterest just puts A LOT of time and money into SEO.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoI guess that makes sense... but it seems like they should be manually penalized. They're single-handedly degrading the quality of the entire image search product.
- hairofadog 5y agoyelp, pinterest, w3schools
- nr2x 5y agoPrior to mdn w3schools was a decent way to quickly find info on random HTML tags. Not sure why it gets so much hate.
- hairofadog 5y agoFor me the issue with all of these sites is that their primary innovation seems to be dominating search results, and everything else is an afterthought. I actually don't know very much about w3schools other than that I have to continually reach over them to get what I'm after. I also seem to remember reading a lot of critiques like this one: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/280484 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/280484
- true_religion 5y agow3schools has its place but it’s usually the top result when I’m never looking for it. Once it was useful. But now I memorized all the information there so it’s not interesting.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoPrior to the popularity of MDN and campaigns like W3Fools (q.v.), the articles on W3Schools were very bad from a web standards perspective (<marquee> and VBScript levels of bad); from a programming perspective, their PHP articles (which largely date from that time) are still incredibly shoddy. Their unwillingness to relinquish the unwarranted authoritative tone or at least visibly disavow any connection to the W3C (who asked repeatedly), coupled with their domination of search results, at a time of a standards push (remember validator buttons?) and multiple high-quality documentation efforts (later folded into MDN; Opera in particular had a good course) just plain got on people’s nerves. They’re a valid reference, just a low-grade one, and using a low-grade reference is rarely a good tradeoff. They also used to be worse and never quite shook of their reputation.
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- Im_your_dada 5y agopinterest the most useless website in the search results
- MiddleEndian 5y agoI use the uBlackList addon in Firefox to block Pinterest results from Google search results with the following regular expression: /pinterest\..*/ It also appends "block this site" links to all search results.
- Minor49er 5y agoAlso Tenor. They've taken over just about all animated GIF results, then take steps to make it as annoying as possible to simply download the GIF.
- damiencarol 5y agoAt least move it in the "Image" tab; (facepalm)