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Hey, I run the Growth team at Pinterest. I just wanted to comment on the article to be very clear and say we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any time in the past.
Hey, I run the Growth team at Pinterest. I just wanted to comment on the article to be very clear and say we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any time in the past.
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"Growth hack" sounds so benign when this is really tantamount to spam
"Growth hack" is an industry euphemism for "unethical practice." You can tell it doesn't literally mean "growth hack" because it's being applied here to the website that Alexa currently ranks #152 worldwide and the typical excuses about how you need to get a little dirty when you're a tiny business just getting started don't remotely hold water.
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I wish we could do the same for Shutterstock and all these useless stock image websites that have totally hacked Google image search yet Google won't do anything about them for some reason.
How do you search for previews of commercially available images then? What I would like is an open protocol for media licenses. Some media-license.txt file with names of images (and wildcards) and license info. hero.jpg CC0 *.PNG PD # public domain # A free preview of a proprietary image. Teaser.jpg preview Everything not marked is considered proprietary, like now by default. Then sites like shutterstock could clearl…
There are certain sites like Wikipedia that improve the web's utility for all who use it, small and giant companies alike. Google search is improved by Wikipedia's existence. And then there are sites like Pinterest, that degrade the web's utility for the vast majority of people on Earth. It actually harms Google's search experience (obviously image search) and frustrates us that try to benignly browse images. Why doe…
An obvious question: does Pinterest buy a lot of Google's ad services?
If Pinterest is a buyer of Google's ad services, Google has a strong interest in ensuring that Pinterest doesn't get free organic results. More organic results, less need for ad spend.
Back when I was an SRE at google for their web crawler, I thought they should de-index pinterest (did not get any traction with this). I still think they should de-index pinterest. I add "-site:pinterest.*" to all my image searches.
You just made my day. I don't know why I never thought of that.
Back when I was an SRE at google for their web crawler, I thought they should de-index pinterest (did not get any traction with this). I still think they should de-index pinterest. I add "-site:pinterest.*" to all my image searches.
I wish we could do the same for Shutterstock and all these useless stock image websites that have totally hacked Google image search yet Google won't do anything about them for some reason.
There are certain sites like Wikipedia that improve the web's utility for all who use it, small and giant companies alike. Google search is improved by Wikipedia's existence. And then there are sites like Pinterest, that degrade the web's utility for the vast majority of people on Earth. It actually harms Google's search experience (obviously image search) and frustrates us that try to benignly browse images. Why doe…
There are certain sites like Wikipedia that improve the web's utility for all who use it, small and giant companies alike. Google search is improved by Wikipedia's existence. And then there are sites like Pinterest, that degrade the web's utility for the vast majority of people on Earth. It actually harms Google's search experience (obviously image search) and frustrates us that try to benignly browse images. Why doe…
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I'd say it's more of a sign of what shows up highest in their index rather than any indication on the quality.
If people are actually navigating to the results and not bouncing immediately due to the login wall that is a sign that people are finding them useful. Is it that weird to believe that lots of people have Pinterest logins?