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Comment by arkanciscan | Hacker News Reader

Long time Pinterest user here with a different perspective; back around 2016 there was a serious problem with duplicate images on Pinterest. You couldn't search for the word "bicycle" without seeing the same photo hundreds of times. At some point it got better, and it seemed to me that they were doing some image recognition. It has since gotten MUCH better at suggesting images that are visually similar.

So let me get this straight; you guys are mad because Pinterest has done such a good job of labeling and categorizing images that they come up in most Google Image searches? Show me on the doll where it touched you.

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Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's the opposite of what we're hoping for here. I understand that it's frustrating to be in the minority and represent a contrarian view to an internet forum, but if you don't want to discredit the truth you're arguing for, the only way is to provide correct information and correct errors neutrally.

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You may have already discerned, but I don't give two shit's about the style of my comments on this site. The Internet is a bathroom stall, and comments are the graffiti. Taking them as seriously as you do is ridiculous.

> because Pinterest has done such a good job of labeling and categorizing images

No. Nobody cares about the deduplication part. Good for them. And if they used their own users' content to increase search accuracy for their own users, nobody would care either. What people care about is that they're actively seeking out and borrowing non users' content (metadata and descriptions) to trick Google image search and pull in other non users who then can't even see the pictures they clicked for.

> Show me on the doll where it touched you.

Interesting how such an irrelevant metaphor comes so readily to mind for you, and that you think it's something to joke about. Hint: it's a super bad look for you.

And I'm sure that's a very great experience when you have a Pinterest account. For the rest of us it makes half of Google image search useless because we can't view the original site image thanks to not having an account.

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