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Now how can we get a court order against Pinterest?

ckastner 5y ago
A good start would be to know why Google doesn't already penalize their rankings, as they have done with many others who have gamed their rankings. Yes, Pinterest does SEO like anyone else, but their ranking seems just outrageously overvalued.
- rasz 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Silbermann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Silbermann is all you need to know
  - texasbigdata 5y ago
    So the CEO working at google previously many years ago is the key unlock? Not clear how this is helpful.
    - rasz 5y ago
      Its not clear to you how having friends at a place selling ads helps you generate ~500mil/quarter of ad revenue and not get banned despite being a garbage stolen content farm?
  - exikyut 5y ago
    > Career > Before Pinterest (which launched in March 2010), Silbermann worked at Google in the online advertising group.[6] However, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with a college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their initial application, Tote, failed to gain significant traction,[7] the cofounders teamed up with Evan Sharp to create a pinboard product that would eventually be named Pinterest.[6] Silbermann says that the genesis of Pinterest really came from his love of collecting as a kid. "Collecting tells a lot about who you are," he said, and when they looked at the web "there wasn't a place to share that side of who you were."[8] A little over nine years after starting Pinterest, the company held its IPO in April 2019 which valued the company around 12 billion dollars beating expectations.
  - lovelyviking 5y ago
    is this the author of this annoying thing that appears in search results but doesn't allow you to see pictures without login so you have to close it with redundant movement of the mouse and then watch carefully to avoid opening it again?
charcircuit 5y ago
Pinterest isn't a torrent site
- dazc 5y ago
  It's all original content then?
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    Assuming the liberal use of the term I believe it is mostly original content.
    - Broken_Hippo 5y ago
      Even with liberal use of the term, most of it isn't original content - or at least, it is about as original as content on facebook... but not quite. Folks are pretty free to post what they'd like on there, and often do not include sources for the things they find. Or folks will link to things that aren't really original, even if it is on their own blog.
- MadeThisToReply 5y ago
  But it is worthless garbage, unlike a lot of torrents.
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    Maybe on Google's regular search, but I've gotten good results from them when using Google's image
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  But it is against user's best interests in using a search platform. It's making google a joke and meme target, and they couldn't care less since they are virtually a monopoly. It only goes to show their arrogance to not do something about it.
LightG 5y ago
Best comment I've read all morning!
dang 5y ago
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A good start would be to know why Google doesn't already penalize their rankings, as they have done with many others who have gamed their rankings. Yes, Pinterest does SEO like anyone else, but their ranking seems just outrageously overvalued.

rasz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Silbermann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Silbermann is all you need to know
- texasbigdata 5y ago
  So the CEO working at google previously many years ago is the key unlock? Not clear how this is helpful.
  - rasz 5y ago
    Its not clear to you how having friends at a place selling ads helps you generate ~500mil/quarter of ad revenue and not get banned despite being a garbage stolen content farm?
- exikyut 5y ago
  > Career > Before Pinterest (which launched in March 2010), Silbermann worked at Google in the online advertising group.[6] However, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with a college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their initial application, Tote, failed to gain significant traction,[7] the cofounders teamed up with Evan Sharp to create a pinboard product that would eventually be named Pinterest.[6] Silbermann says that the genesis of Pinterest really came from his love of collecting as a kid. "Collecting tells a lot about who you are," he said, and when they looked at the web "there wasn't a place to share that side of who you were."[8] A little over nine years after starting Pinterest, the company held its IPO in April 2019 which valued the company around 12 billion dollars beating expectations.
- lovelyviking 5y ago
  is this the author of this annoying thing that appears in search results but doesn't allow you to see pictures without login so you have to close it with redundant movement of the mouse and then watch carefully to avoid opening it again?

charcircuit 5y ago

Pinterest isn't a torrent site

dazc 5y ago
It's all original content then?
- charcircuit 5y ago
  Assuming the liberal use of the term I believe it is mostly original content.
  - Broken_Hippo 5y ago
    Even with liberal use of the term, most of it isn't original content - or at least, it is about as original as content on facebook... but not quite. Folks are pretty free to post what they'd like on there, and often do not include sources for the things they find. Or folks will link to things that aren't really original, even if it is on their own blog.
MadeThisToReply 5y ago
But it is worthless garbage, unlike a lot of torrents.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  Maybe on Google's regular search, but I've gotten good results from them when using Google's image
stjohnswarts 5y ago
But it is against user's best interests in using a search platform. It's making google a joke and meme target, and they couldn't care less since they are virtually a monopoly. It only goes to show their arrogance to not do something about it.

LightG 5y ago

Best comment I've read all morning!

dang 5y ago

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html