Make Google Great Again – Ban spammy image scraping sites like Pinterest from the search results

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   Nodger on September 14, 2021 at 6:57 pm

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   Idea: Make Google Great Again – Ban spammy image scraping sites like Pinterest from the search results

   Link: https://www.howtogeek.com/393460/how-to-bl...

   Don’t hold your breath. Maybe they are just giving them loads of traffic and users before they buy them out. For now, you can just block them from the results, shame though. Google was the best once.

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   Peter Pans on September 14, 2021 at 2:21 pm

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   Idea: Make Google Great Again – Ban spammy image scraping sites like Pinterest from the search results

   Link: https://www.quora.com/It-has-been-revealed...

   If you can’t beat them? copy them

   It has been revealed that Google damaged the growth of Pinterest in 2018 by de-indexing pages. Is Google building a Pinterest copy? If Go...

   Link: https://www.quora.com/It-has-bee

   Answer (1 of 7): Pinterest screwed the pooch in several ways. As a general point, they screwed up by having “keyword landing pages” that didn’t really meet Google’s definition of “relevance”. This is clearly an attempt to build their own site search mechanism, and Google could hardly be ... Read more

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   ChrisP on September 14, 2021 at 10:48 am

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   Idea: Make Google Great Again – Ban spammy image scraping sites like Pinterest from the search results

   Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/c...

   Why has Google allowed Pinterest to pollute the Images search results? The results are registration-only

   Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/

   Why has Google allowed Pinterest to pollute the Images search results? The results are registration-only
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