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Comment by dmitrygr | Hacker News Reader

Message to pinterest: Please stop ruining google image search. Please. Just stop

Pinterest is definitely an expert level content farm. For Google Image Search in particular, you're right that it does create a bit of a broken end user experience that feels a bit misleading.

It's surprising that Google hasn't cracked down on this yet or dealt with the obvious dupes problem (showing image result from Pinterest that came from website a vs showing result from website a).

And google search. I was googling around to try to understand how a trailer suspension is designed, and I had pinterest on the first page. Do people actually buy their engineering explanations from Pinterest?

Pinterest <3's the longtail :) I'd imagine they have some good diagrams of trailer suspension designs, but almost certainly not as good as a solid YouTube video or blog post..

even without pinterest, G search is dysfunctional with its side pane. Yandex is better

Yandex seemed to skew towards non-US/English resources (in Europe, tbf), which could be a good thing depending on what you're looking for.

I just tried it again and I have to say I'm impressed by the results. It's like an earlier Google. I tried a few searches that made me rage on Google (dnsmasq, HP/Win10 and ACPI, Openwrt and TomatoUSB related) and Yandex actually shows some decent stuff.

Like holy hell, Google tried very hard to show trash from the biggest websites like Youtube (of course), Microsoft (fuck their answers forums, honestly), HP (ditto), Reddit (actually useful), the usual. Even Github is lower in the rankings.

Bing is slightly better, but not by much. Yandex shows some useful links I haven't come across. Very interesting, I need to remember to use it more.

Yandex is particularly good at finding people, especially if you work out the crop tool.

You should re-address your message to google.

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