Yes, absolutely. I would love nothing more than for every Pin on Pinterest to link to the relevant website or have rich contextual information. I honestly don’t think it was that difficult technically (in most cases) but IMHO “pin relevance” was underinvested in at Pinterest. Ben (CEO) and the leadership team would often make public pleas about “how important it is to increase pin relevancy” and I saw very little action in the engineering organization to support that.

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> Specifically Pinterest image result clutter?

No, not at all and quite the opposite. If I see a result is on Pinterest, specifically a pin result, I’m more likely to click it because I know the image will be delivered fast (I was in charge of CDN strategy) and is two easy clicks to “download image”.

Often when I see other results, I’ll get to the page and there will be some irritating right click disabling script or I’ll have to hunt down the image and it’s a pain.

If the site it links to is dead, I’ll at least have an audit trail I can use to hunt the image down from the metadata on Pinterest.