[seanwilson]

How does it manage to rank so well? I'm not a user of it but whenever it appears in searches it feels like endless popups and walled content that tries to make you sign up. I would have thought Google would discourage links like this.

[AJ007]

My guess is they hired Google engineers that worked on Image search, or they have active sources within Google now.

Pinterest definitely should have been penalized, and I suspect at some point they will be.

[friedman23]

I think it's pretty clear that almost everyone that uses hackernews is in a bubble and this bubble does not include people that use Pinterest.

[seanwilson]

True, but Google is already meant to penalise pages that have intrusive popups so what's the difference? https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...

[buboard]

if people use it because it is spammy and plasters itself on user's faces, then it's right to call them out for it

[exolymph]

Yes, but I'd be shocked if a majority of people using Google Images are on Pinterest.

[creato]

It was probably originally an SEO game, and Google is probably now afraid to fix it lest they have another Yelp or Foundem on their hands.

[behringer]

They're almost certainly paying for the privilege.