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Comment by bradford | Hacker News Reader

I'm a hobbyist woodworker.

I was recently searching for an unusual wood-joint, and I had to give up because the google search results were absolutely polluted with pinterest.

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Yep. I've encountered this way too many times. And you'll find the picture you're looking for and it will only be on Pinterest. Then you click on to Pinterest and there is zero context for the picture. WTF? No links. Nothing. I'll never understand Pinterest.

It's a site which allows stolen images to be shown. Showing the context (their origin) would prove that they are stolen, so they don't show it.

It really poisons the results of searches.

it s amazing how many people use it for so many different subjects. or are they paying people to tag images?

It's amazing that people have different interests? Why, it's almost as if they were different people.

Did you try using search operators?

unusual wood joint -pinterest.com

- searches google for "unusual wood joint" minus any results from pinterest.com

Try `-site:pinterest.com` to remove any results from the website, rather than any results that contain the text "pinterest.com". A minor distinction, but one that could change your results slightly.

There have been occasions while trying to filter results from reverse image searches where excluding both Pinterest strings and domains had no effect in my experience. (There's also the problem of Google not searching for a specific string when even double quoted but that's a different one of the search engine's annoying quirks of late).

Interesting! Good answer, thanks :-)

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