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Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by vonseel »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #23
CM30 wrote: post #2

It should, but this also illustrates a problem with Google Search that they'll need to grapple with in the future. Namely, that while they should treat all sites equally, in practicality there's not really much incentive to on their part. Think about it. Let's say Google does remove Pinterest altogether, banning the site as a punishment for 'gaming' the system. What then? The people that do search for Pinterest will…

remove them only from all search results that don't include the word pintrest. Search for pintrest, you get pintrest. Search for "widgets," pintrist is excluded. Search for "pintrist widgets," pintrist is included.

Pinterest. Not that spelling is important or anything.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by bagacrap »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #179

I say don't get rid of it but give me the option to remove it from my search. There's a bunch of sites I would rather not see in my search all the time. Yes, I know I can do a custom search but I'd be happy to have a "not see x domain in my search" option. If I remember right there were other search engines in the past that had the option. Come on Google give me the option.

From the Reddit comments:

This extension can block domains from Google search and it's made by Google. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by jedahan »

blakesterz wrote: post #21

> "I'm searching for a specific piece of technical hardware " What specific piece of technical hardware shows up anywhere near the first page of results in Google that's from pintrest? I can't think of a single time I've seen pintrest in the search results and I search for various technical things all the time? Just curious since this surprises me. I thought pintrest was non technical stuff usually.

I'm doing research on the GRiD compass and ibm leapfrog and pintrest completely (and uselessly) saturates my search results.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by Springtime »

bootlooped wrote: post #55
bradford wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a hobbyist woodworker. I was recently searching for an unusual wood-joint, and I had to give up because the google search results were absolutely polluted with pinterest.

Did you try using search operators? unusual wood joint -pinterest.com - searches google for "unusual wood joint" minus any results from pinterest.com

There have been occasions while trying to filter results from reverse image searches where excluding both Pinterest strings and domains had no effect in my experience. (There's also the problem of Google not searching for a specific string when even double quoted but that's a different one of the search engine's annoying quirks of late).

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by Pxtl »

The most infuriating case is the reverse-image search. When I use reverse search for an image I'm trying to find a source or a complete version or context for an image flying about on social media.

And what I get is often a solid wall of Pinterest hits providing zero info.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by creato »

jjeaff wrote: post #176
adventured wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree generally speaking. Quora has raised $452 million in venture capital. It's incredible frankly. There's no actual sound business model there and never has been (which is why eight years later they still don't have a functioning business and are living on VC, while being subsidized by Google abusing its own search policies).

No sound business model? Quora has a sound business model. The same model as many VC backed SV companies. No, it's not to simply sell ads. You build something slick and shiny, then you pump VC money into it and you keep hyping (otherwise known as "pumping") until you can get numbers that look good. You can just spend that sweet, easy VC money to buy users and spend a dollar to make 10 cents because of that "growth" y…

Do you have an example? You speak as if this is a very common pattern, but I can't think of any good examples. I can think of some that look like they might fit this pattern if they were to IPO, but that's a big if.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by hokus »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #109
always_good wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinterest (re)hosts the images so I'm not sure what you're suggesting. That Google write custom logic that supposedly unrolls this indirection on this one site where the image sources already exist on other sites?

Is that farfetched? Does Google not have the engineering resources to detect the image canonical source (a la Tin Eye) and point to that instead? I find that hard to believe considering the resources they’ve put into Content ID at YouTube for copyright infringement identification and takedowns.

The website the image was stripped from isn't even indexed.

But well put: If google wants to pretend it is quality material because it sits on a giant content farm they should indeed credit the original source for it. If they cant find it it should not be listed.

If it was text the entire content farm would be erased from the index indefinitely.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by paradroid »

ckocagil wrote: post #173
paradroid wrote: post #146

LinkedIn requires logging in because the Supreme Court rules they couldn't really stop us from scraping public profiles. Forcing us to login makes it easier for them to control who has access to what content.

This makes no sense to me. Anyone willing to scrape a profile will create dummy accounts to do so. And even if this step somehow prevented data scraping, the network effect will make it extremely hard to compete with LinkedIn.

It is much more difficult to pretend to be a real person with a real job and real employment and education history with real connections.

Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

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Post by hokus »

dazc wrote: post #50
raquo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost all the images on Pinterest are available elsewhere. If Pinterest results were not polluting Google images, the originals would surface easier. --- I don't really see a problem with targeting the biggest worst abuser. Not everything has to be a one-shot solution to grand problems.

'...the originals would surface easier' Yes, exactly. Try and find the original version of most images these days and you'll just go around in circles. If Google really think Pinterest need to be in search results (I'm talking text based queries here) why on Earth do they need to return 3 results on page one, all leading to a Pinterest log-in page?

should replace the result~~s~~ with login/register links.
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