And the worst part is, I don't even understand WTF Pinterest is.
“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
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#192I have an filter to hide pinterest from my image search results. All the white space, it's fantastic.
But google offers the option to put a minus signal before the name of the site you do not want receive results from. Is a filter better than this? search: concrete+houses -pinterest
My filter is part of the adblocker and kicks in every single time. That's way better, no need to remember adding it.
Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I actually like W3schools. Most of their infamous errors are gone and they are usually more “to the point” than Mozilla docs, which are a sometimes too prolific and not as clear.
All my web platforms searches are now "mdn " cause w3schools is never informative enough for me.
I actually have a couple of bash scripts just for this when I want to look something up specifically at mdn, and thought about expanding it to stack overflow and reddit.
What's that? Why yes I have heard the phrase 'bikeshedding', why do you ask? ;)
Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#194I have an account on Pinterest because I like the service but having to sign-in for the simplest of things surely bugs me. Sometimes I just want to see one image and I end up having to navigate a bunch of sign-in pages just to see something. Recently I've found myself skipping Pinterest pages just because of the hoop jumping that signing-in creates.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
This brings up a great point. Why does Google not just extract whatever information Pinterest is providing and provide that directly in Google Images as SERP? If none of the content in Pinterest is original, what value are they providing the user? Pinterest is the "experts-exchange.com" of digital imagery, except EE at least had (gated) original content.
> what value are they providing the user? Curation. Pinterest is brilliant for some users and some uses.
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Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#196To me the simplest solution would be to add 'Stop showing domain' in the drop down arrow under where they currently have 'Cached' in search results. It would be useful to users and also help Google understand when a site is annoying a bunch of people.
...Or is this an opportunity for an extension someone wants ot build where you can select sites/domains and it auto injects somnething like -site:pintrest.com into all searches.
Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#197To me the simplest solution would be to add 'Stop showing domain' in the drop down arrow under where they currently have 'Cached' in search results. It would be useful to users and also help Google understand when a site is annoying a bunch of people. ...Or is this an opportunity for an extension someone wants ot build where you can select sites/domains and it auto injects somnething like -site:pintrest.com into all…
There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#198I don't see why Pinterest does this to themselves. My main exposure to them is through Google image search and links to their site. So my first several experiences were like this. It left me with a terrible first impression. It makes me wonder if the whole site plays games and tries to waste my time. I usually don't sign up for an account the first few times I encounter a site, so in my mind it's a pretty critical ti…
One of the things that makes me a little bonkers is when people A/B test, find something that works well for, say, 50% of the people, and then dust off their hands and call it done. Because 50% is a lot of people, so it must be good.
I'd rather that they ask, "Hey, is there something that would be good for the other half of the users?" Software being infinitely soft, we can often find ways to serve both groups.
If Pinterest were a person, we'd think it an asshole, always pulling a bait-and-switch and asking us to create an account in the same brusque way. How much would it really cost them to be more neighborly?
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#199It 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…
Google has removed large sites in the past. The one that comes to mind is RapGenius a couple of years back
Re: “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
#200To me the simplest solution would be to add 'Stop showing domain' in the drop down arrow under where they currently have 'Cached' in search results. It would be useful to users and also help Google understand when a site is annoying a bunch of people. ...Or is this an opportunity for an extension someone wants ot build where you can select sites/domains and it auto injects somnething like -site:pintrest.com into all…
There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
It doesn't actually.
The problem with Pinterest is in image results - the extension does nothing for them.
Second, the extension no longer works properly as it hasn't been updated in years.