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This I did not know about and I'm surprised they don't get penalised by Google in some way at the display of search results stage. I mean sure, I suppose one can do the -pinterest trick, but it's still a bit weird that Google thinks search results that are pretty much the same site but from different tlds are not spammy. Do you think they will change this to prevent Pinterest from essentially spamming some search queries by using the tld hack?

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Live by the SERP updates, die by the SERP updates. It's been at least two years now and Google seems fine with it (until maybe one day they aren't). I know it might annoy folks like you and I to get reposted pinterest images in our results but it might be that Google has done research and found that people like seeing pinterest in images and so that is why they are keeping them around. It's hard to say why they are there until Google says something about it, Google rankings are a black box at times.

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