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

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Post by nasredin »

ValentineC wrote: post #107
jws wrote: post #22

In days of old it was pretty easy to ban a site from your Google search results. It looks like they have removed that function. I wonder why? I know I liked having certain low value (to me) sites not clutter up my results. A little article about the feature, sorry it is going to try to throw an interrupting DIV at you– https://searchengineland.com/google-block-sites-feature-1464...

It's in the article you linked to, but I suppose Google expects everyone to use their Personal Blocklist Chrome extension now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

One more reason for Google being a very scammy advertising company (they stopped being a search company years ago):

You can not blacklist entire TLDs, just individual subdomains.

Thanks to ICANN (and others?) there is hundreds of TLDs that are 100% full of spam. And they all are able to game the system.

Google has lost the SEO War IMHO.

If they are not willing to innovate they should be broken up via anti-trust.

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

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Post by nasredin »

callumlocke wrote: post #237
aerique wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, so they removed it to peddle their Chrome browser.

This kind of extension is available for every browser.

They are usually broken because Google often pushes shady obfuscated updates.

IIRC the OFFICIAL "Personal Blocklist" was broken for a long time due to this.

AFAIK there's still no way to block entire TLDs.

So basically Google doesn't give a shit about you!

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

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Post by cjg »

bagacrap wrote: post #183
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...

Unfortunately it doesn't work on image searches.

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

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Post by exodust »

scottmcdot wrote: post #178

A few weeks ago I shared something very similar from r/Showerthoughts [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220638

That's a good exchange between user 'jquery' from Pinterest, assuming they're who they say they are, and user 'xg15'. Nice work raising the issue of nag screen and non-dismissable modal.

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

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Post by jpindar »

zerostar07 wrote: post #96
acqq wrote: post #83

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It's a site which allows stolen images to be shown. Showing the context (their origin) would prove that they are stolen, so they don't show it. It really poisons the results of searches.

it s amazing how many people use it for so many different subjects. or are they paying people to tag images?

It's amazing that people have different interests? Why, it's almost as if they were different people.

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

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Post by aptwebapps »

kbenson wrote: post #217
on_and_off wrote: post #210

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My 2 cents : they are popular because they are pretty much the only ones in that pretty specific space. It does not explain why no other company has tried to copycat them though.

Shout out to the guy that runs pinboard. He posts here sometimes (regularly? Rarely? Often?), and goes into his experience running a site like that by himself.

`idlewords, but that's that got to do with Pinterest?

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

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Post by ozfive »

jypepin wrote: post #204
adrianmonk wrote: post #159

I 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…

Agreed on this. What's surprising to meis their success despite the logged in experience not being better at all. We're getting married, so my fiancée is (obviously) using pinterest for everything - her dress, themes, you name it. And the wedding planner we work with uses Pinterest too, we (try) to share it with them so they get an idea. Even such a simple feature as sharing a board is a nightmare and wastes 5-10 min…

Look I know this is after the fact but it might help other people. You could just create one account and have the wedding planner log into the account. No sharing hassle involved.

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

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Post by ViViDboarder »

ggg9990 wrote: post #165
adventured wrote: post #139

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The Google spider has an entirely different experience, when going from page to page on Quora, than what the user does (someone not signed in). Google hammers any normal site that gets caught presenting a fundamentally different experience to the user than they do the spider. Google is not unaware that Quora, Pinterest and LinkedIn present different experiences to the bot vs the user, they knowingly allow it for gian…

That’s because the policy isn’t derived from first principles, it’s a flexing of relative muscles. Google knows that small sites don’t have any choice but to comply with their guidelines. They also know that if they start filtering out LinkedIn results, if people are looking for something they expect to find on LinkedIn, they’ll go and search LinkedIn, possibly even before they search Google. Google will not allow th…

Also, Google doesn’t also compete with those companies. I would bet if it were someone who they were competing with on another vertical , they’d be enforcing this policy.

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

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Post by stevekemp »

mrsteveman1 wrote: post #81

They seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to insert themselves between the site users visited intentionally to find what they were looking for (Google), and the site that actually provided what they were looking for. They've essentially become a large MITM attack on Google Image results. Edit: just tried a few arbitrary search strings on Google Images, it seems improved compared to the past few weeks/months, somewha…

Search for things like "Acorn Tattoo", and similar terms and you find pinterest spam is all there is in the google image search results.

Their behavior is eerily reminiscent of expertsexchange, back in the day. They had a similar high ranking for lots of things, but the result-pages were all horrid and non-useful to actual visitors.

Happily stackexchange surpassed expertsexchange, and I hope that something comes to kick pinterest from its niche too - one of only two sites I wish to fail (the other being linkedin, for similar evil reasons).

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