Pointed out that Pinterest is polluting image search results
How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/pinterest-sucks-google-image-photo-search-ruining-internet
Pinterest is a photo sharing service that allows you to associate (save) an image you care about with a website and pin an image pinned by someone else to your collection. SNS represented by Facebook and Instagram is generally a service that 'distributes personal events to friends and followers', but Pinterest is a 'tool to collect ideas' for your future. It is gaining popularity, and in recent years it has been gaining support not only from women but also from Gen Z , men, and millennials, and has continued to make rapid progress at a pace of 'an increase of 100 million monthly active users in a year.'
What's the difference between Pinterest and SNS? | Pinterest Japan Official Blog
https://pinterestjapanblog.com/pinterest-is-not-sns/
News site Input reports the problem that Pinterest is 'ruining image search.' The problem that Pinterest is creating is a type of search pollution that 'when you search for images with a search engine, only the search results of Pinterest come out' because of the popularity of Pinterest.
For example, when I actually searched for 'cat cute images' on Google Image Search, at the time of article creation, 3 out of 11 were links to Pinterest as shown below.
If you click on the image because you want to know the details, Pinterest, which gives almost no more information than the image, is not only reluctant, but it is also rampant to the method of 'leading to fraudulent sites from Pinterest'. Pinterest has become a headache for users of image search, as there are Chrome extensions that remove the link to Pinterest from Google Image Search. The link for this extension 'Unpinterested!' Is below.
Unpinterested! --Chrome Web Store
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe
'Unpinterested!' Developer Sello Mkantjwa said, 'I used to do a lot of image searches, but nowadays when I search for mufflers etc., the first 10 search results that are displayed are Pinterest. If you find an image interesting and click on it, you'll be asked to create an account to access it. '' If you press back and try another search result, you'll end up doing the same thing. ' He said that these experiences led to the development of extensions.
Mkantjwa is not the only one complaining about this. In 2018, the activity 'Exclude Pinterest from Google search results' was launched on Reddit, the largest social bulletin board in the English-speaking world.
An activity to 'eliminate Pinterest from Google search results' is underway among Reddit users-GIGAZINE
By Aaron Parecki
'Google as a search engine controls search results based on engagement, how useful the content is, and so on,' a Pinterest spokeswoman said in response to Input's question. , Claimed that there was a problem on the search engine side instead of the Pinterest side.
In the case of Google search, if you want to exclude Pinterest search results, it is effective to search for '○○ -pinterest' using the search operator '-' that excludes specific terms and phrases.
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