The worst thing about Pinterest results, is they aren't primary sites -- I'd rather get a link back to the source page the image came from.

You could always use Pinterest directly if that's what you want.

Do you need an account to actually make Pinterest useful?

Sometimes I do a Google Image search because I found something interesting, but don't know what it is, so I'm hoping of going to a page that describes what I was looking at. Pinterest shows up as a result, but with no backstory nor does it lead me back to a source, so it's worthless as a search result. It'd the ExpertsExchange of image searches.

Endy's advice of using `-inurl:pinterest` seems invaluable and I'll be adding that for all image searches in the future.

You can use Pinterest directly without signing up - https://www.pinterest.com/search/

pinterest has ruined image search results, it's infuriating

Would kill for a Google Image Search extension that forwards my browser to the original source page rather than the Pinterest landing page. Any recommendations?

would you pay for it?

One-time payment of a few bucks, sure.

Agree. Pinterest search results is spam.

You know, even in image searches "-inurl:pinterest" works pretty well.

Google images feel like it's nothing but Pinterest now.

Frankly I'd love Google to turn Google Images into much more of a true Pinterest competitor. Image search volume is pretty large, and they are already testing monetizing it. Now they just need to add in features that let you store and organize that information (and build a better profile of you in the process while also crowdsourcing tagging).

Pinterest needs more competition.

> X needs more competition.

In the context of Google being the alternative, this is sad and funny at the same time.

Hacker News in the abstract: The web needs more decentralization.

Hacker News IRL: Let Google own every vertical.

I certainly recognize the irony of suggesting that Google might help improve competition.

That said, there aren't many players in a position to provide actual competition to Pinterest like Google can. The obvious concern is where you draw the line at anti-competitive if Google tried to do the equivalent of what they did with Yelp ratings.

If they did that I would switch to Bing's image search immediately. Definitely not what I want when I'm searching for an image.

Bing is a lot better than Google for searching images. It also has better tools built in to the results page (similar images, different sizes, multiple source pages).