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I do not know whether Google gives Pinterest preferential treatment. That said, I'd like to know: What are you searching? Results will be different depending on if you're searching "cute bedroom ideas" or "epistemology in pre-Socratic Greece."
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> since no one other than Google is really allowed to crawl the web. ??
There are two main reasons why I say nobody besides Google is really allowed to crawl the web. The first is that Google gets much more access to pages on websites than everybody else. You can see this by examining the robots.txt files of various websites[0]. I've been doing this for several years now and Google has a consistent advantage across many thousands websites that I've looked at. This adds up to a significan…
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Stop using Google search. DDG works just as well
I use DDG search most of the time, but I find this to be untrue. DDG is pretty good, but struggles with context a lot more than Google does. For example, when searching for an error in a programming library, DDG is likely to return the library homepage, whereas google is more likely to return the specific github issue where the error is being discussed.
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Just do -pinterest in your search to filter
Or just avoid using google. The Pinterest results in google image search queries was a major driver to me using bing/ duck duck go.
Reverse image search is also intentionally gimped, unlike non-US jurisdiction Yandex which is quite good.
It's certainly for legal reasons, not technical, but Image Search has gotten progressively worse every year. It used to be godly effective 10 years ago.
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There are two main reasons why I say nobody besides Google is really allowed to crawl the web. The first is that Google gets much more access to pages on websites than everybody else. You can see this by examining the robots.txt files of various websites[0]. I've been doing this for several years now and Google has a consistent advantage across many thousands websites that I've looked at. This adds up to a significan…
So, uh, don't respect robots.txt in your search engine? It's not like there's a law that you have to, and that you can't pretend you are Googlebot. The only real obstacle I can imagine is that some firewalls might be configured to be more permissive with traffic originating from Google subnets.
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User: This service has a problem and it's not working well. Programmer: There's nothing wrong with the service, you just have to use [magic incantation] to make it work right. I've been hoping for 20 years that this kind of exchange would stop happening. Still hoping! :-)
Services and users have different goals. Why is the helpful technologist the problem?
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Google should be asking from a product perspective if they are providing the search results the user is most likely seeking. I seriously doubt that most pinterest results are what users are seeking. As such, Google probably should consider changes to their algorithm to compensate (cat and mouse) for pinterest's gaming. That is assuming how pinterest does it is not against any google rules... because if it were agains…
Just do -pinterest in your search to filter
Related: in the last several years, there started appearing these StackOverflow mirrors. It's gotten to the point that you can't google a programming question without running into at least one. Some copy the questions and answers verbatim, some use machine translation to (crappily) translate them into my native language. Sometimes they even rank higher than the real StackOverflow. I really wish there was a non-hacky…
After the option to block domains was removed around 2014-2015, I rarely came across those anymore, but it seems they're back...
Pinterest being an obvious offender, but I can imagine people wanting to block certain news sites, or Fandom/Wikia sites, or all sorts of link farm spam sites.
Related: in the last several years, there started appearing these StackOverflow mirrors. It's gotten to the point that you can't google a programming question without running into at least one. Some copy the questions and answers verbatim, some use machine translation to (crappily) translate them into my native language. Sometimes they even rank higher than the real StackOverflow. I really wish there was a non-hacky…