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Re:Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office l... by gruez on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:14AM (#24331109)
OTOH the same logic would be to blame google when sites are using blackhat SEO. AFAIK pinterest does do greyhat (at best seo): they scrape images, feed them to google image search to get the best tags, and add then to the post.
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Re:Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office l... by gowld on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:21AM (#24332362)
You're saying that asking Google which terms best describe the pic, and writing that down next to the pic, is unethical SEO? At most it's some kind of theoretical IP infringement on Google's image recog algorithm.
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