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0 pointsdvfjsdhgfv8y ago0 comments

>AFAIK there is almost no OC on Pinterest anyway.

And this is the key point. By removing Pinterest from the search results the user doesn't lose almost anything.

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toomuchtodo8y ago· 4 in thread

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.

They're providing negative value by stropping the context from stolen images and repackaging them into mindless streams and ensuring that you can't get to the images without signing up.

DanBC8y ago

> what value are they providing the user?

Curation. Pinterest is brilliant for some users and some uses.

always_good8y ago

Pinterest (re)hosts the images so I'm not sure what you're suggesting. That Google write custom logic that supposedly unrolls this indirection on this one site where the image sources already exist on other sites?

toomuchtodo8y ago

Is that farfetched? Does Google not have the engineering resources to detect the image canonical source (a la Tin Eye) and point to that instead?

I find that hard to believe considering the resources they’ve put into Content ID at YouTube for copyright infringement identification and takedowns.

dazc8y ago

'...is almost no OC on Pinterest'

I think you are being charitable there?

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