Sometimes I do a Google Image search because I found something interesting, but don't know what it is, so I'm hoping of going to a page that describes what I was looking at. Pinterest shows up as a result, but with no backstory nor does it lead me back to a source, so it's worthless as a search result. It'd the ExpertsExchange of image searches.
Endy's advice of using `-inurl:pinterest` seems invaluable and I'll be adding that for all image searches in the future.
Pinterest needs more competition.
In the context of Google being the alternative, this is sad and funny at the same time.
Hacker News in the abstract: The web needs more decentralization.
Hacker News IRL: Let Google own every vertical.
That said, there aren't many players in a position to provide actual competition to Pinterest like Google can. The obvious concern is where you draw the line at anti-competitive if Google tried to do the equivalent of what they did with Yelp ratings.