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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by mrtksn on Friday December 25, 2020 @03:51PM (#25538938)
>Google should be asking from a product perspective if they are providing the search results the user is most likely seeking.

I am cynical. Maybe Google's own experiments show that users click more ads when they get frustrated of the Pinterest spam that is technically not spam enough to be removed from the index.

What the users are going to do? Use Bing?

Google's most optimised version is probably being an Ads search engine where you are presented only with the most lucrative ads that are relative to your query. Essentially Yellow pages.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by mancerayder on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:46PM (#25539659)
>What the users are going to do? Use Bing?

duckduckgo isn't horrific. And certainly not for image searches, which is how Pinterest's pollution ends up being noticed.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by swsieber on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:44PM (#25540667)
I had an experience the other day where duckduckgo worked where google had failed (an obscure java default bug). It was pleasantly surprising.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by monkeybutton on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:42PM (#25539265)
It's certainly going in that direction. With reverse image search being replaced with "Search with Google Lense" on mobile, the most prominent results are now all Google shopping ads.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by alisonkisk on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:16PM (#25540240)
If that's the idea, isn't it easier to just show random junk? Why pinterest?
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