Pinterest needs to be blacklisted from search engines. I'm never signing up for an account there, period.

lol, reminds me of the image search I did last week to find some earrings for my mom. "celestial earrings threader -amazon -etsy -pinterest -aliexpress -alibaba -dhgate"

The internet is becoming a friggin pain in the ass.

Reminds me of eBay, and how I try to find parts and accessories specific for my old car. I used to be able to just type in the make, model, and year, and BAM, I had tons of results. But eBay has allowed peddlers of low-quality, generic junk to spam their listings. Now I have to search "1981 Honda Accord -fits -turbo -generictrash -etc" and filter out every single part that comes up 1000 times that isn't actually even designed for my car. They just call it a "generic" part and list that it fits every car. I used to search eBay regularly, and now I hardly go on there anymore because I can't find anything.

It isn't a great analogy. Pinterest still provides the content people were after on Image Search (the image). The only thing you cannot do is click it and see related images.

A better analogy might be Expert Exchange. A site that put answers behind a paywall, and fell hard out of Google's search results. Then Stackoverflow came along and took whatever remained.