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With all the personalization that Google employs, one should assume that it can figure this out or that it allows one to, for instance, in some setting, block Pinterest unless one explicitly ask for it by including the keyword “pinterest” in one's search.

Perhaps it should be possible to downvote search results to further create a better personalized effect — continually downvoting Pinterest should have a desired effect.

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I've thought about this before, but it would be far to easily manipulated by bad actors - for example, one person says something that triggers the SJW/alt right/gamer/whatever crowd, then a million people downvote her website and her business is destroyed. It wouldn't work without a huge amount of moderation.

If the voting was just user-specific, that would be fantastic. Because I include a gobbledygook search term to exclude all Pinterest results, Google requires me to perform captchas very frequently, which isn't ideal either.

Try this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

As I said, it's a matter of personalization and wouldn't be visible to others.

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