I wonder how much of their traffic is angry people who ended up there by mistake. They could save a lot more than $2M if they just set robots.txt to disallow everything.
People have written browser extensions to remove Pinterest from search results, as it is almost always a dead-end
Pinterest is useful just not for us nerdy guys. I am not sure why Google keeps it though or how they benefit, unless Pinterest uses AdSense exclusively, then one can determine that its some sort of partnership. You would think Google would be smarter about who to send over to Pinterest if thats the case.
So much for the idea that men are more "vision-oriented" than women.
I've just searched about two years of browser history and i haven't landed their once.
Nobody is saying they are forced to visit the site.
Google, I google anything and they show up (ESPECIALLY IMAGES). Blacklist one domain in search? Don't worry they've got 200 other ones.
I ended up doing a wildcard blacklist with uBlacklist
Not sure exactly why/when the switch over happened but Bing has dominated Google for image and video search for years.
I have experienced this many times when looking for a specific image on Google Images, I will click on the link that goes to Pinterest only to find the image is not there.
I probably might even sign-up some day if I weren't repelled by this being required every time I come. I even stopped reading Quora, and, most recently, Twitter because of this - they started requiring signing-in while I don't want to stay signed in and be tracked even though I actually have respective accounts.