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> In the last quarter, the global audience contributed $17 million to revenue compared to $273 million from the United States audience. Annually, this puts the global audience at $41 million in revenue and the United States at $715 million in revenue.

Ouch. $41 million revenue from non-US is .. not nothing, but it's a respectable medium sized national chain of shops kind of number, not a $10bn company number.

(Pinterest is also very vulnerable to Google one day deciding that they shouldn't let them clog up the top of the image search rankings...)

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Is there any way for me to just ban pinterest from my google searches? I detest their links and I do hope google does that someday.

  -site:pinterest.*

I mean in a permanent fashion, I assume you mean add that to every search I do?

Google released very own Chrome Extension specifically to block domains that you find to always provide bad results. You can use that to permanently block pinterest, and any forum/stack exchange clones, etc.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Thank you!!

I also made a little thing called AntiBookmark to gray out links to domains you don’t want to see across the web, if you want the ban to be more complete: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/antibookmark/pobgf...

Chrome plugin by Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Google images needs a way to filter all sites where if you click to go to the site that it is on.... doesn't show you the image.

Can we crowdsource this banlist, just like an adblocker automatically updates?

Google used to have this feature (the ability to specify sites not to show in their search results), but removed it for some reason. I cannot remember if they gave a reason why.

They did provide a replacement as a browser plugin (mentioned close-by in this thread), and I am sure that there are other similar plugins available.

I wonder if when opening Pinterest links with a Googlebot user-agent it actually shows the image. I’d check but I’m don’t have stable internet at the moment. A nice plugin would be to change my User-agent when opening Pinterest links if that’s the case.

Add -site:pinterest.com to your searches.

Unfortunately for us google is not interested in making the google search engine useful to us in that way. You might be able to append -pinterest.com to your search, I'm not sure that works these days.

I’m seeing a lot less results as of yesterday, specifically in art related verticals. Guessing investors will be able to catch this pretty early from data sources like SimilarWeb. Also a guess is that the poor monetization is primarily google images traffic, not active users.

If the Google Images traffic drops suddenly after the IPO, that’s very suspicious and the SEC should investigate.

Anyone around long enough to remember Demand Media know what happens when you dominate a wide breadth of search terms.

What are you talking? You know how effing suspicious it is that you need to create a Pinterest account to see those bullshit, third-party stolen images? Yeah, nothing suspicious at all.

Extremely vulnerable. By its nature Google wants all those top ranked results to be things Google's users wanted to find. If they get a reputation for not finding what you were looking for and a competitor (say DDG) does better, they could be toast alarmingly fast.

Every day I'm guessing millions of people are disappointed by getting a Pinterest link, and every one of those people is a reason for Google to tweak their policy and/or ranking to get rid of Pinterest from the first page.

Pinterest is indeed very vulnerable, and potentially already in the crosshairs.

Google just recently launched Shoppable Ads in GIS. [1]

Further, from a user value standpoint, image searching quite often a tool for visual purchase planning. Think clothing, furniture and decor, trips, you name it. That is massively valuable for feeding into audience segment models.

With their launch of Collections ages ago and other things they are doing there, I fully expect to see Image Search become more heavily monetized directly and indirectly in the future.

[1] https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/google-pushes-deeper-int...

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